Quotes About Justice

Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and education system, and so on.

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

We live in a very unequal society.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

Black Americans have organized all across this country because we have an unequal justice system, not because anyone demands special privileges.

Unequal pay exists across most job sectors of our economy, even in nursing.

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, it's time for us to take a hard look at the separate and unequal conditions that still exist in our schools and our communities and rededicate ourselves to fulfilling the promise of equal opportunity for all.

We need to, as a society, collectively, unequivocally denounce any time innocent lives are lost.

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.

The decision before my office is not to decide if the loss of Breonna Taylor's life was a tragedy. The answer to that question is unequivocally yes.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.

Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.

Unfair trade practices should be regulated because they're unfair.

It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.