Quotes About Justice

Greetings cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

It's so funny how many people today really believe themselves to be the most advanced people who ever lived, 'the arc of history bending towards justice' or whatever the quote is. To me, being attendant to history is a kind of resistance. It offers the possibility of alternative worlds, that there is a reality outside the one we are living in.

The Noted Activist

Do others have to lose so we can win?

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

It was difficult to define an outlaw in a country where there was no law.

Aboot the gold Syvertsen stole

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

De man dat built things oughta boss it. Let colored folks build things too if dey wants to crow over somethin'.

We, too, consider machine gun bullets good laxatives for heathens who get constipated with toxic ideas about a country of their own. If the patient dies from the treatment, it was not because the medicine was not good.

A little war of defense for helpless things was going on inside her. People ought to have some regard for helpless things. She wanted to fight about it.

Not every skunk in the world rates a first-class killing. Hanging is too good for some folks. They just need their behinds kicked.

Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die, Sister Berry snapped.

All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them or don't agree with them.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

I'm ready to do any kind of work, as long as it absorbs my passion for making a just world and equal world.

They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.

Any racism towards anybody, it's not acceptable.

According to who brings an issue to the table, people will get up and support it. It shouldn't be based on that. It should be based on whether the kids are performing or not.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.