Quotes About Justice

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

I believe health care is a civil right.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.