Quotes About Justice

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

These rules of Saama, Daana, Bheda are all ineffective. You must use the fourth one, Danda.

Something must be done!' 'It's because you don't live here,' Blago snorted. 'You still believe in justice.

how can a good man be a lawyer in a dictatorship?

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. —Desmond Tutu2

neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen

Every step of the way throughout my life as an athlete and activist, I felt my father's large hand on my shoulder guiding me down a path of service and justice. When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. -Bayard Rustin

Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you're choking on it — until you let the sun in. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands.

Racist police, no matter what their rank, have to be weeded from every department and not allowed to work in law enforcement again anywhere.

Douglas wondered if his friend would make it out of this alive. He realized, not for the first time, that life or death was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the mission, their own small attempt to "proclaim liberty to the captives," as the Book of Isaiah had commanded nearly three thousand years before. To engage in a war where there would be no material benefit for the victor other than the liberation of oppressed and victimized human beings.

I do not mind mankind's crimes, but I do mind its hypocrisy.

A person in power should never use his position to intimidate citizens from exercising their rights.

I am a proud, gay person of color and I will not be intimidated into mediocrity or legislated into conformity!

People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

We should not have to experience the fear of intimidation or retaliation in the United States.

Sexual harrassment and abuse is intolerable.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we can be safe to be who we are, believe what we want and love whomever we want.

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

Prosecuting Gamergate is not about justice for me or the women of Giant Spacekat. It's about introducing consequences into the equation for men that treat harassing women like a game.

You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

Our job in Congress is to follow the facts of any investigation wherever they lead.