Quotes About Justice

You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.

In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

Every movement ignores disabled people. So, during MeToo no one was talking about the experience of disabled women; during BLM the notion of black disabled people was just ignored and so in terms of comparison we need to have this movement for disabled people.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or a hundred. All I'm interested in is doing justice to the role.

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.

It is common sense that in our immigration courts, where children fleeing devastating violence abroad often find themselves, kids need lawyers to advocate on their behalf. After all, lawyers go to school for years to understand the nuances of our legal system.

America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?

Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don't see where they are; we say they are 'doing time,' and you really don't know what that is.

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

As a nurse, I earned around 60% of what my white male counterparts in the same position earned.

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.