Quotes About Justice

We should honor - not attack - those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.

Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.

Injustice can never be stood for.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what he did, but he stood up against his own people.

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.

Kendrick Lamar, he has stood up for peace and love in our community. When he could have just stood up for himself.

If you look at South Africa and President Nelson Mandela, it was people of the world who held their hands together and stood up to make a difference. So 'people power' is important.

When Matt Bevin tried to bully teachers and illegally cut their pensions, I proudly stood with them to fight back and win.

Revenge doesn't stop.

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.

Men and women wonder if merely walking or driving justifies being followed, stopped, or questioned. This practice and the presumption of guilt so often associated with people of color must come to an end.

It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Even before 'Pose,' I was involved in activism and advocating for my community in various ways. I didn't see that stopping with my entry into this industry, but people are going to be afraid of what you're going to say. I'm going to bump heads with people that benefit from the oppression that they put trans people through.

We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.

I was eight years old when I got the talk about what to do if a police officer stops me. I was 15 when I was face-down on the curb for the first time.