Quotes About Justice

If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.

It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.

Obama killed Osama. Yes, President Barack Obama gets to crow about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

What is crucial is there be laws.

Our aid budget has a crucial role to play in shaping the world according to our universal values of democracy, enterprise and justice.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

The law is cruel.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police.

Amtrak should not preclude their customers from exercising their full rights through a forced arbitration policy.

I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.

When you get blamed for something you haven't done, it brings collateral damage.

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems will deliver for the public interests in all countries.

With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation. When we fight for justice, what exactly do we want for our communities?

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

We got to make sure that the Democratic Party is not just Democratic, but seen to be Democratic. That means we got to have systems in place that makes sure that everybody who participates in a primary is perceived to have an equal shot with everybody else.

What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?

I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.