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Quotes About Justice

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.
~ Robert M. Hensel
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
~ William Rehnquist
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
~ Max Eastman
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
~ Thomas Paine
Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
~ William Dean Howells
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
~ Hannah Arendt
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
~ Will Durant
It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
~ Aristotle
If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gender equality must become a lived reality.
~ Michelle Bachelet
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
~ Unknown
I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.
~ Nelson Mandela
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can't? What is this? This is 2014.
~ Pharrell Williams
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
~ Voltaire
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
~ James Russell Lowell
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.
~ Ward Connerly
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
~ Charles de Gaulle