Quotes About Justice

When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'

Work for the things that you care about.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction

If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.