Quotes About Justice

If the United States has normalized relations with Cuba, why would we treat illegal immigrants from that nation any different than those from other countries? It is time we level the playing field and end the outdated, preferential treatment for Cubans.

I would never call myself an expert on geopolitics. I'm not studied in it. But what I do know is what's right and wrong in terms of treatment of people.

The 3.5 million people in Puerto Rico are American citizens. They deserve fair and equal treatment as Americans.

Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance.

There are people out there every day really fighting the fight for equal rights, equal pay, equal treatment. They're inspiring.

If you're going to have a lifesaving treatment, a curing treatment, but unaffordable, what's the use in having that treatment?

The problem with our country is that we don't ask for equality in treatment. They want free flow of capital into our country. Why do they not allow free flow of labour into their country? Tell me what is the reason why they don't allow people to migrate to the United States as and when they like?

We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human beings.

Here's the crazy thing: if I was guilty I would be entitled to job training, housing, medical treatment. But I have nothing. I was released with five dollars and 37 cents of my own money.

I come from being poor to a millionaire and I've seen the way cops treated people in my neighborhood. If you have a name, or you have a face, the treatment is different.

As a fighter, you want fair treatment.

Homosexuals have always been a part of our society and they should be getting the same treatment as anybody else. They have the same blood, skin and emotions. So why do we look at them differently?

If I'm the champ, I don't want this. I don't want no special treatment.

Every day Black women are subjected to harsh and racist treatment during pregnancy and childbirth. Every day Black women die because the system denies our humanity. It denies us patient care.

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further measure is how it treats those who deeply disappoint it.

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will take it, as long as it saves lives.

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.