Quotes About Justice

The Republican party is not the party for the wealthy. We care about everyone.

I believe that every family - it doesn't make a difference who you are or where you come from - deserves to have quality healthcare. It is a universal right. It's not the exclusive privilege of the elite and the wealthy.

There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.

The fight is over two fundamentally different ideas about the nature of America. On one side are those who believe that that every hardworking person should be able to rise. On the other are those who believe that wealthy white men should always rule over a permanent class of workers.

Yes, health care is an election issue. It's also a moral imperative especially in a wealthy nation.

If ever there were a case for raising taxes on the wealthy, it's Andrew Bynum.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal. I'm not going to be part of that.

A lawsuit can be a weapon.

I have a lot of cop friends that I'm close with and we talk about these things. I always ask them, 'In this situation and in this scenario, what would you have done or what should've happened?' If a guy doesn't have a weapon or doesn't seem like he has a weapon, drawing your weapon should never be the answer.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

If they wanted to end the violence and war between them and if they wanted Jews and Palestinians to live in peace, Jews and Palestinians, then they should consider this solution: one democratic state, free from weapons of mass destruction, and with the return of the Palestinian refugees.

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

We must continue working to build trust between communities and law enforcement. We must continue working to guarantee every person in this country equal justice under the law. And we must take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the frequency with which they use them.