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Quotes About Justice

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
~ Blaise Pascal
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
~ Corita Kent
I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.
~ David Guterson
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
~ Desmond Tutu
There's some very good medias. And I have to say, Fox has treated me fairly. And I don't mean good, but they've treated me fairly. I don't want to be treated good. I just want to be treated fairly.
~ Donald Trump
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
~ Ernest Istook
If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.
~ F. Murray Abraham
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
~ Helen Keller
If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
~ Idris Elba
Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
~ James Russell Lowell
I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.
~ Marlon Wayans
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus doesn't just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.
~ Louie Giglio
Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'
~ Luiz Felipe Scolari
The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
~ Manny Montana
What would it take for you to acknowledge that race is an issue? Maybe you don't want to acknowledge that race is an issue.
~ Marc Morial
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
~ Ronald Reagan
We know that the only way to achieve equality is if both men and women want to achieve equality. We also know that equality is not just the right thing to do for men, it is a good thing to do.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.
~ Ulpian
The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.
~ Wesley Morris
Grab whom you must. Do what you want.
~ Seymour Hersh