Quotes About Justice

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way.

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

We need to ensure that no one is denied employment, housing, opportunities, or benefits because of their sexual orientation.

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals' idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or physical attributes.

I wouldn't want anyone to tell me that I couldn't marry the person I loved, and I don't want to do that to anyone else regardless of sexual orientation.

No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

I believe that individuals in our country should not face discrimination for their sex or their gender or their sexual orientation.

The federal government has no business in restricting basic human rights based on sexual orientation, and I am ready to protect equality at every turn in Congress.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.