Quotes About Justice

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.

As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

The fire in the bellies of the good people who work for a more fair and just world for all of us - that spark never fails to inspire me and warm my heart.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.

You can't work on the biceps and ignore the rest of the body, and you can't just say one issue is important when you are looking at how to make the world a better place.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves...

We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.