Quotes About Justice

My goal is to use football as a platform to speak out on things that need addressing.

We must embrace a new agenda based on inclusiveness; a commitment to reconnecting the social and the economic; a relinking of the latter to a plausible redistributive system; and a determination to ensure that everyone has access to justice. All these things are within our reach.

I am very happy for all the players doing the Black Lives Matter bend the knee. We are all in the same boat.

Let everybody compete on a level playing field.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

I think if we could just level the playing field in life as much as possible, then we'd all be in a much better place.

I am committed to leveling the playing field and expanding opportunity to all.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress.

That's my passion. To make sure everybody is treated equally. To make sure we get equal justice. To make sure that everybody is on the same level playing field.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

What law enforcement always does is over-charge, and no one can fight it, so the people will plead down and you're stuck within the system.

More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights and plead guilty.

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.

I've learned a long time ago if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be pleading the Fifth, and most Americans get it.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.