Quotes About Justice

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. You can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits - forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind.

All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon.

Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again, once you've been branded a felon.

The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why I say we have not ended racial caste in America; we've merely redesigned it.

There is no opposition between efficiency and justice; on the contrary, an institution run by those who actually do the work is likely to be more effective than one run by interchangeable exploiters who often lack any specific expertise in what they are supposedly managing.

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

There's no such thing as judicial supremacy.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

There's no such thing as racial, non-white supremacy.

White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.

When I'm around people having conversations about their day, I'm looking at them, like, 'What could they possibly be talking about? How are we not talking about deconstructing white supremacy right now? How are we not trying to save trans people?'

There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme.

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

The Constitution has to be supreme.

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.