Quotes About Justice

We are a country with a conscience.

When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

In this country, if you are supposed to show up in court and you don't go, there are real consequences. A subpoena from Congress is no different.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

We are a nation of laws, and breaking those laws have consequences.

We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.

There has to be measures for players to know the consequences for their actions.

There should be consequences that happen when you say things about people, especially racist things.

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

To be anti-racist you have to be actively a part of dismantling the systems that surround you and the systems that you benefit from.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not.

We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration. We stand with all the free peoples of the world and hope you stand with us in our quest for justice and freedom.

Look, I went to war, and we knew by survey that when I went to war that we had a certain percentage in that carrier battle group, and when I was on the ground briefly in Afghanistan, that were gay. And now we come back to America and say they don't have equal rights. I've never understood it. This is something where we have to correct this.

Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Looting speaks to a lack of economic opportunities - frankly, we all would loot, too, if our families' continued survival depended on it.

For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.

I believe that nothing so arbitrary as money should be able to come between a person and the means of survival. And that's a really fancy way of saying that it doesn't matter if you're poor - you should have top-quality health care.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.