Quotes About Justice

Let's create a legal system that can work.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want.

I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

Torture doesn't work.

The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.

I'm big on being anti-stereotypical and fighting negative stereotypes.

When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I'm not a magician.

Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.