Quotes About Justice

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

When I was growing up in Alabama in the '50s, even though we were poor and the laws were against blacks, we still had a sense of morality.

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

We have to get morally just leaders elected.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a Medicare for All type of program, and that's an idea whose time has come. It is the morally right thing to do.

I can't morally go against the truth.

There should be limits morally and legally as to how far you are willing to go to try to hurt someone and their family.

I believe that abortion is morally wrong.

As long as some players are getting fined more for showing an advertisement on their boxer shorts or whatever it is than other players are for being racist then that's morally wrong and it has to change.

More law, less justice.

We're constantly having to go head-to-head with the Bernie Madoffs of the world who just want more and more money.

I want more people to hear me and be part of the change that everyone would benefit from: the change we need so that people like me can be safe and happy.

Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.

I think more people are engaged in the issues I want to talk about.

Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

Nobody wants to get rid of the libel laws, but we want them to be fairer. If we drove down the costs you might end up with more people suing. The only people who can afford it now are the rich and the giant corporations.

I want more people to speak up about issues, like equal pay.

I would say more power to women who scream from the rooftop about something wrong done to them, whether it is after 10 years or 20 or 50... It doesn't make a difference.

I do feel a need as a Mormon to speak out against things that are hurting people.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

Bro Court' is set in an engineering college hostel. It is a court where all the grievances of hostel inmates, brothers from other mothers, are addressed and justice is assured.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.