Quotes About Justice

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

My idea is that we've worked so many years for equality, but the only area where we've achieved equality, with men, is in job loss. We are still 77 cents to the dollar.

We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.

Jesus loves a free black man.

Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

America is not a white man's republic.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.