Quotes About Justice

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can't bring down God's house.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.