Quotes About Justice

We cannot forget the need to use the law as a shield, but we must remember other forces of the law.

We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'

We cannot be a pro-immigrant party only when it is convenient.

By taking the lives of our young, and wounding the wombs and lives of their mothers, we are flying in the face of God. We cannot play God. If we continue down this path of destruction, we will be met at the gates by our own doom.

At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing.

Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights.

If the countries of Europe and of North America can be almost uniformly prosperous, we don't see why we cannot be allowed to be a little prosperous.

We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.

We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.

This commitment to equality and justice for all are the ideals that our country was founded upon and what we continue to aspire to as people. We cannot be complacent, and must vigilantly affirm this again and again, as bigotry and hatred have an insidious way of seeping into our society.

We cannot live in a country where losing an election functions as de facto immunity deal.

There are far too many people in prison with poorly understood disability, particularly cognitive and mental disabilities. We cannot tolerate a system that just processes people rather than a system that fairly administers justice.

We cannot stay enveloped in our own reality and turn a blind eye to the plight of others.

We cannot give up on working toward that more perfect union.

We cannot afford to weaponize race.

We cannot create the perception that if you're rich or famous or both that you got one set of justice - and for everybody else it's something much harsher. That won't do and we need to make sure that we have a criminal justice system that has integrity.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.

We live in a world where adolescents and young people, especially from key populations, are still left behind. We cannot fail to address their needs.

Black lives do matter. We cannot be afraid to say it, so I'll say it again: Black lives do matter.

We cannot police our way to public safety.

Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.