Quotes About Justice

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.

Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.

South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.

I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in the United States, one that functions in a manner that is as oppressive, in many respects, as the one that existed in South Africa under apartheid and that existed under Jim Crow here in the United States.

As Miss South Africa, I cannot wait to make a contribution to important social causes.

I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the courts and justice no longer becomes just, we're in a world of trouble.

U.S. attorneys have taught me a lot over the years, and in the Southern district of Florida, they have been to me partners.

I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.

The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Palestinian children deserve the same right to be free in their own land as Israeli children in their land. A two-state solution will finally bring Israelis the security and normalcy to which they are entitled, and Palestinians the sovereignty and dignity they deserve.

A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.

It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many people are denied the most basic human rights.

We need to afford people from minority groups and marginalized communities the chance to inhabit spaces they're often held out of because of stereotyping.

One thing that is great about India is the freedom to speak and the spaces available in our democracy to protest which doesn't exist in many places in the world.

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

I don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones.

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse.

...as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.

If you care about people and you really love them, you should get angry at the things that put them in danger or hurt them.