Quotes About Justice

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Revenge is a powerful motivator.

The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating factors such as mental illness.

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

I believe in the Constitution.

Under our Constitution, if you're a bad citizen, you're still a citizen; that's the way we roll.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.

If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the constitution, then you need to follow the law.

Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional.

I'm an American. I have constitutional rights.

I want to construct a better country for each Brazilian: pacified, just, without hate or rancor.

I always felt that, through it all, there was a really strong, forward, positive, constructive accomplishment by the American people during that period, if you consider that during the period from 1954 to 1965, this country broke through the caste system.