Quotes About Justice

Blacks now demand special treatment as a matter of course. In its befuddled way, society is trying to do what is right. But to favor blacks systematically and then call this sorry charade "equal opportunity" is self-delusion of the worst kind.

They must listen to the words of Booker T. Washington, the former slave who went on to found Tuskeegee Institute: No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced regardless of his own merit or efforts.1337

In 2009, after more than 20 years of legal wrangling, 75 white Chicago firefighters shared a $6 million discrimination award. They had scored higher than blacks on a 1986 lieutenants' exam but the city cooked the scores and promoted blacks. The city fought the case all the way to the US Supreme Court.43

Elää ja kusta pystyasennossa on vapaan valkoisen miehen perusoikeus.

Panno Maria, když už je nutno, abych um?el taky já, nedej bych um?el jako ten pes, dej a? um?u jednoho krásného dne na barikád? revoluce s puškou v ruce.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

Using freedom to excuse foolishness is the highest form of ignorance. Remember, people died for those rights.

It was the discomfort of knowing two people doing the same work at the same level were being paid differently that led us to reform how we set salaries. That's how we ended up throwing out individual negotiations and differences in pay, and going with a simpler system.

By the same token, as a remote worker, you shouldn't let employers get away with paying you less just because you live in a cheaper city. "Equal pay for equal work" might be a dusty slogan, but it works for a reason. If with regard to compensation you accept being treated as a second-class worker based on location, you're opening the door to being treated poorly on other matters as well.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

I'm grateful to the judge who sent me to rehab instead of prison.

Freedom requires truth, and so to smash freedom you must smash truth.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

la justicia no es sólo cuestión de fondo. Sobre todo, es cuestión de forma.

there are so many unpunished crimes in the world; indeed, they cover an area so vast, so ancient, so broad and wide that, up to a point, what do we care if a millimetre more is added to it?

I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.

Are you the owner of this car? A cop has something you don't have, something you gave him earlier. No, I'm just delivering it to Oklahoma City for a lady. Do you have plates for this car? A cop needn't be vicious, but he can be so, safely. Just those stickers. Do you have the registration? Presidents and premiers can annihilate millions, but only a cop can explain away your solitary murder.

Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private.

I will not resort to violence, I will not degrade myself with hatred. I will return good for evil, I will love my enemies. Christ showed us the way and Gandhi in India showed it could work.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

We're trying to win the right to vote and we have to focus the attention of the world on that. We can't do that making legal cases. We have to make the case in the court of public opinion.

we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.