Quotes About Justice

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

I am so proud of Pakistanis and specifically of our lawyers for speaking out and getting their heads bashed in for a better Pakistan.

I went to the Capitol and came to court specifically to draw attention to the problems of the world that directly affect my state of mind and my physical body and to offer a way to clean up the world. This is my intent.

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.

The people around the nation, but specifically in Arizona where operation Fast and Furious was carried out, deserve more from their president and their attorney general. I will not rest until full answers are given about this project, justice is served for those responsible, and Attorney General Holder takes responsibility for his role.

We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It's a travesty what's going on with our mass incarceration specifically of minorities.

Too often, the very institutions that are supposed to protect and serve our community have instead failed people of color, specifically our black community.

If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes to jail. If he's president, under a Constitution that refers to impeachment specifically for 'bribery,' as well other 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' he should still be removed.

I don't want to be treated outside the rule of law. And I don't want people from this part of the world, specifically North Africa and the Middle East, to be seen as underhumans, as people who are not deserving of human rights and being subjected to the rule of law, what I call open season. I don't want that anymore.

The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

I don't know how many speeches I have given saying, 'No child worse off.'

After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.