Quotes About Justice

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.