Quotes About Justice

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

We don't want two-tier health care in Canada - one tier for Quebec and another tier for the rest of the country.

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people's actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

To those who help me, I repay them with grace. But to those who don't, I repay them with exactly what I've received. That's my motto. Only then the world will be balanced.

Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.

If you have the opportunity to help, then you have the responsibility to do it, do what is right simply because it is the right thing to do

if the world is blaming you, if your not guiltythen you become the judge and do whats right even if it feels wrong, or people say its wrong

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.