Quotes About Justice

Exodus 21:22–23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies. Thus the Bible is making clear that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life.

Without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.

stewardesses of the 1960s had filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), trying to change the "no men, no marriage" policy of their job. Aileen Hernandez, the only female or African American on the EEOC, supported them. Years later they finally won, but the airlines called the ruling "improper" because Hernandez, after leaving the EEOC, had become president of the National Organization for Women. A judge actually agreed.

You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

self-esteem as the prerequisite for democracy – and for equal power within a democracy

Judy Collins sings about in "The Blizzard," or read Alice Walker's essay "My Father's Country Is the Poor." Each

Do it because it is right not because you believe it is.

Go with the truth, the right not what suits you. Because what suits you doesn't suit you if it's not right, the truth.

Right fights while wrong rests.

The challenge of humanity is the choice of what works perfectly for them over what works fairly for them.

The problem isn't that the world isn't fair enough. It is, we aren't truthful enough.

The world is neither fair nor unfair, the question is whether you are fair to yourself.

There are battles we choose not to fight. Not because we are weak but because we are strong. Not because they are hard, but because they are wrongly structured.

Truth makes privilege

We can be absolved for falling for what we found in place but not for failing to rise up for what we deserve.

We didn't determine the race but with determination, we can determine the race.

We don't need a better world, we need a better society.

Don Corleone Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

Si se tiene fuerza, se tienen derechos.

Mistrust all those in whom the desire to punish is imperative - Goethe

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. —UNKNOWN

China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.