Quotes About Justice

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

I don't hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.