Quotes About Justice

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

If it wasn't for so many brave people standing up, speaking out, and fighting for equal rights, we might not have all of the luxuries of freedom that we have today. So many unsung people fought for us to be able to live together in harmony no matter how different we are from one another.

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise to make America just like it was in 1997? Will there be a desperate attempt to sustain the unsustainable by authoritarian measures? Will the institutions of order and justice fail in the process?

It is absolutely unacceptable to single out any political group - right, left, or center - and say we're going to target them. That is unthinkable.

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair for the black community.

You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

I will flight for the people until my last breath.

You're innocent until proven guilty.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the 'contribution' they make to society.

Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

We will not rest until being a gang member is a miserable, undesirable life.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.