Quotes About Justice

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America

By mid-September, after postponing the start of his concert tour until October 24, Paul was leading a crusade against lynching. When Walter White and most other leaders of the black establishment, such as A. Philip Randolph, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Mary McCleod Bethune, refused to back such an initiative, Paul asked W. E. B. DuBois and Albert Einstein to join him in a national call for a mass protest meeting in Washington, D.C. They agreed

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

Treachery never goes unpunished

What are we doing?" Riven asked. Cale answered, "We're watching." Riven turned his eye to him. "He told you to leave." Cale nodded. "It's only justice if there's a witness." "Justice isn't what he's after, Cale." Cale had not considered that.

If good people won't do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything.

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

There's a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.

How can people be punished when they are innocent?

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

The LORD goes forth like a mighty man, Like a man of war He stirs up His fury; He cries out, He shouts aloud; He shows Himself mighty against His foes. Is 42:13

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

Politics is not about power.

Politics is not about money.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world.

Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective.

I'm almost dizzy listening to him. A big part of me would give anything to finally put away Jenny's murderer, for all the same reasons Will has, plus my own. But he means the others, too, a massive undertaking by anyone's standards.