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Quotes About Justice

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
~ James L. Farmer, Jr.
Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.
~ Dilma Rousseff
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
~ H.L. Mencken
There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.
~ Charles Krauthammer
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
~ Edmund Burke
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
~ Aristotle
Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.
~ Pope Pius XI
Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.
~ Emma Watson
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
~ Frances Wright
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
~ James M. Barrie
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.
~ Nina Turner
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
~ Malcolm X
We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.
~ Anita Hill
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
~ John Marshall
I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.
~ Philip Vera Cruz
Law and justice are not always the same.
~ Gloria Steinem
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
~ Voltaire
Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
~ Unknown
Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.
~ Bob Marley
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru