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Quotes About Justice

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.
~ Anzia Yezierska
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.
~ Robert M. Hensel
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
~ Anthony Trollope
Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way.
~ Lady Gaga
Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.
~ Unknown
We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.
~ Hillary Clinton
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
~ George H. W. Bush
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
~ Jacques Maritain
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
~ Olive Schreiner
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.
~ Andrew Jackson
There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.
~ Natalie Dormer
Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?
~ Ellen Wilkinson
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
~ Heinrich Heine
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
~ Wendell Willkie
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Visibility is not equality.
~ Chelsea Manning
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.
~ Jeff Sessions
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
~ Mason Cooley
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
~ George Bernard Shaw