Quotes About Justice

By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.

Prosperity need not come at the expense of this country's proudest traditions as a beacon of justice.

You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

What Labor has said very clearly is that there should be up to life sentences for people who traffic in guns.

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

Technology's role in human trafficking cannot be ignored. But if we focus on how to prevent human trafficking, technology also has a powerful role. Like Ashton Kutcher's app Thorn, which directly spots human trafficking and connects you with officials.

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.

There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

I've thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important. I also believe that our state and local elected officials have been given a responsibility by the people who they work for to get to the bottom of this tragedy.

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.

Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.

Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.

There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy.

After acknowledging that most law enforcement personnel are fair-minded and do a difficult job, it only takes one exception to create a terrible tragedy.

It would be a tragedy for democracy if dissent goes away.

The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.