Quotes About Justice

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

Women's empowerment for me means knowing your rights, having the facts, knowing the truth about what is happening out there, here in our own country and the condition of women throughout the world.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

No living being should have to endure conditions that you wouldn't put on your worst enemy.

I don't condone violence, period.

I can't be in an environment that is not conducive to me as a black woman.

Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

I am all for confrontation but not baseless.

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

Connecticut has been a leading state in ensuring that our laws protect women, and that includes the right to equal pay for equal work.

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the voice of my conscience.

Politics isn't that difficult; it is about finding your conscience again. So, just do what is right.