Quotes About Justice

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities.

I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.

You see, 'The Look of Silence' is the first film ever made where survivors confront perpetrators who still hold a monopoly on power. It's normally never done because it is too dangerous.

I feel so honored to be reprising the role of Janet Weiss and stepping into Susan Sarandon's shoes.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression and create a justice system that is truly a source of international pride rather than shame, I suspect Rwanda may have as much to teach us about what is required as any tour of a Norwegian prison.

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

I beat the bullies up. I got suspended a lot for beating up kids in our schools that were bullying other, sometimes mentally handicapped kids.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

My one suggestion going forward is, any felony committed against a woman should be a full-season suspension.

I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.

It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

Everyone should have enough to be able to eat and sustain their families. I'm not saying everyone should become extravagantly rich but everyone should have sufficient food and good education.

When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.

From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

It's going to take everyone to rebuild a fairer, more sustainable, more beautiful Britain.