Quotes About Justice

Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.

I vote and I do jury duty.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

You don't just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.

What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end segregation. What changed things was the rule of law, the courts. Brown v. Board of Education was ushered in by a movement, but it was a legal decision.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.

I'm asking people to vote for me because I'm an activist leader and a problem solver.

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

In 2007 elections, people voted for us in the hope that we would get rid of Goonda Raj, as the criminals of SP had made life difficult for them.

The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace.

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against the condemned, a vital spark of American democracy would be extinguished.

Black women voted against Roy Moore not because they necessarily wanted the other guy; they voted against Roy Moore because they knew that would be better for the people of Alabama and, to be frank, better for the rest of the country.