Quotes About Justice

America's greatness is largely because of how we value the weakest among us.

Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.

I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Everyone - regardless of their background, wealth, race, faith, gender, sexual orientation or age - should be able to fulfil their potential and succeed.

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

We have police stations for the poor but CBI, CVC and CAGs for the rich with nearly nil recovery of ill usurped wealth.

The existence of billionaires should sound an alarm: they are the most extreme manifestation of wealth generated by the efforts of millions of people being funnelled into the pockets of a tiny few.

Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.