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Quotes About Justice

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.
~ George Elliott Clarke
Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.
~ George Saunders
It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.
~ George Saunders
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
~ Honore de Balzac
There is no equality without coercion.
~ Unknown
What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.
~ Hillary Clinton
Equality is never given, it is taken.
~ Jane Bryant Quinn
Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
~ Jesse Jackson
Gender equality is more successful than armed force.
~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
~ Barack Obama
ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.
~ N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?
~ Stetson Kennedy
Dominating others is not equality.
~ Christina Engela, Loderunner
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.
~ Jon Stewart
I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem.
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
Equality is humanity.
~ Rashmit Kalra
ALL human beings are equal no matter their race, social, political and economic status. No one can eat, excrete, sleep, bear your pains and die your death for you no matter your might.
~ Oppong Amankwaa
The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.
~ Anthony Pan
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
~ Evo Morales