Quotes About Justice

Black and brown people in communities like mine, when arrested are more likely to be convicted and receive harsher sentences than our white counterparts. A justice system that actually hands out justice isn't as cruel, violent and racially biased as the one we've got.

When you hear anyone policing the bodies of trans women, misgendering and othering us, and violently exiling us from spaces, you should not dismiss it as a trans issue that trans women should speak out against. You should be engaged in the dialogue, discourse, and activism that challenges the very fibers of your movement.

France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

I'm running for governor because I want to build a Virginia that works for everyone - no matter who you are, no matter where you're from.

In Virginia, we will continue to lift up all who identify as women as we strive for a more equitable future.

Control orders put people not convicted of any crime under virtual house arrest based on scant evidence. Billed as a security backstop, they proved unreliable.

Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.

Having served as both attorney general and deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, I had responsibility for supervising the FBI, working on virtually a daily basis with its senior leadership.

For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.

The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently.

People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated against employment, barred from public housing, and denied other public benefits.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Impeachment isn't a tool that should be used to virtue signal.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.