Quotes About Justice

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

Stop and frisk - whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car - is a civil rights violation.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Our communities will become more - not less - dangerous when local police officers are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, and day laborers for immigration violations.

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

In order that punishment should not be an act of violence perpetrated by one or many upon a private citizen, it is essential that it should be public, speedy, necessary, the minimum possible in the given circumstances, proportionate to the crime, and determined by the law.

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

We stand for law and order, so we will not allow the scourge of violence to infect our communities.

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.

I think violence can never be justified.