Quotes About Justice

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

I believe that open criticism of any institution is necessary in a democracy, to safeguard the constitutional order.

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.

The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

We need to get rid of bullying. We need to get rid of abuse. We need to get rid of harassment. We need to get rid of the casting couch. Instead, we need to build the bench.

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

Needless to say, I fully support the legal codes that are meant to protect individuals from discrimination.

What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law.

I don't want to live in a country where the elites like Hillary Clinton do not live under the same laws as the rest of us. She needs to be held to account.

If we have a right to healthcare, we should also have a right to the most fundamental of human needs: shelter.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

I'm interested in elder justice and what we can do about elder abuse and neglect.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

If a person is seriously injured as a result of someone else's negligence, then they are entitled to compensation.

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

The dignity of our neighbors deserves to be defended.