Quotes About Justice

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

Judges make tough decisions on child abuse, divorce, property disputes, drunk driving, domestic violence and other issues that should be free from politics.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

I don't support violence, period.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

I don't believe in violence against women.

The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.

How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence.