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Quotes About Justice

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
~ Victor Hugo
Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.
~ Arvind Kejriwal
An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.
~ Johnnetta B. Cole
A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.
~ Charles Hamilton Houston
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
~ Indira Gandhi
Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.
~ Michelle Obama
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
~ Horace
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.
~ Kevin Rudd
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
~ Earl Warren
Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.
~ Huey Long
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.
~ Nelson Mandela
I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!
~ Erin Gruwell
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
~ Kinky Friedman
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
~ Edmund Burke
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
~ Hannah More
Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Leadership means not shying away from issues like safe abortion when the evidence shows us these services will save women's lives.
~ Penny Mordaunt
It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.
~ Adrian Pasdar
Nobody wants the armed forces to be somehow above the law, or exempt from it.
~ Penny Mordaunt
I am not in exile.
~ Chen Guangcheng
How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
~ Auberon Herbert