Quotes About Justice

We need to create a sense of shame about racism, and about leaders who deliberately mislead and lie.

I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them.

I connect deeply with SAVE's mission and I realize it doesn't matter which specific group you're fighting for, that everyone deserves equality, everyone deserves safety, and everyone deserves to be able to live their lives free of hate, fear and discrimination.

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

A better Mississippi and a better America is in our future - if we fight for it.

The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to African-Americans to lift themselves up to create a better life for their families and doing everything possible to bring his people together.

Medgar Evers is a true Mississippi hero.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Some of the most impressive judicial nominees are grossly mistreated.

Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.

When we talk about pay equality, I think we're misunderstanding where the problem lies.

MeToo is a good movement, but women should not misuse it... MeToo should be used correctly.

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

Mob rule is always extremely dangerous for the future of democracy.

Only the mob takes the Fifth.

I believe that facts serve feminists far better than faith. That due process is better than mob rule.

The politics of identity, cancellation, and mob rule are not acceptable to me.

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

I would have loved to play Atticus in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' There's no music in it, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't want to do it!

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

Models need to be unionized.