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Quotes About Justice

The #MeToo movement doesn't belong to Republicans or the Democrats. The #MeToo movement belongs to women who are having the courage to come forward and say this is wrong. People should be protected. We want that for all of our daughters and all of our sisters. We also want there to be rights for the accused.
~ Ben Sasse
If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
~ Christine Pelosi
I'm always going to fight on behalf of my brothers and sisters.
~ Masi Oka
What I'm trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, 'We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we're going to perish as fools.'
~ Bernice King
We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.
~ Michelle Visage
Our brothers and sisters in the trans community, they showed up to every one of our marriage marches when it wasn't necessarily what they needed. So we have to be there for them, use our lessons learned in the marriage fight - how to win when it's difficult, how to change minds that are difficult to change.
~ Dustin Lance Black
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
~ Alexander Pope
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
~ A. Bartlett Giamatti
If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
~ Shelley Morrison
We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.
~ Opal Tometi
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
~ Sepp Blatter
The only people who distrust the cops are crooks. They're not out there just harassing innocent people. Maybe sometimes they do. But there's no inherent situation where cops are deliberately out there harassing people.
~ Charles Barkley
I want to make Meerut safer for women and improve the law and order situation.
~ Nagma
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
~ Ali Abdullah Saleh
In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.
~ Steven Seagal
They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.
~ Philip Hone
They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.
~ Daryl Gates
I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
~ Bruce Cockburn
Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.
~ Jordan Peele
I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.
~ Tony Benn
People have been skeptical of the Women's March on Washington. Our legitimacy only came from us proving to the rest of the world that we're capable.
~ Linda Sarsour
The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.
~ Cesare Beccaria
The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.
~ Glenn Greenwald