Quotes About Justice

It is time for free nations to stop ignoring or even normalizing tyranny. Not only is it the right thing to do - but it's also the only way to stand up for our national security and the safety of the Canadian people.

We are a country where the ancestors of slaves and newcomers escaping tyranny and violence can rise to the highest positions in the land.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

There are those who think that in order to get respect you have to be some sort of tyrant or overly authoritative. You can be fair to people.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

The big tyrants never face justice.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.

Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.

Too many people are afraid to talk about the issue of race. We should be willing to address it, and more importantly, when it rears its ugly head, we should be willing to take a stand and try to stomp it out, whatever the action may be at a particular time.

White people must speak out against black racism, no matter where it rears its ugly head.

God don't like ugly.

We do not stand for racism on the pitch, in society or anywhere else it rears its ugly head.

A Global Magnitsky Bill, which broadens the scope of the US Magnitsky Act to human rights abusers around the world was passed in December 2016. Estonia adopted Magnitsky legislation in December 2016, and the UK followed in April 2017. These are great successes, but my fight for justice continues.

I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.