Quotes About Justice

No insurrection bred out of desperation can be quelled by strong-arm tactics.

I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.

I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted.

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

I come from a blue-collar town - and being from that place, you learn not to let anybody take advantage of you. You don't let people mistreat you. You stand up for what's right.

When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

If you let people think they can get away with a certain type of behaviour, people will take advantage of it.

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

We've got to take care of the poor.

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn't anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn't any question I will not answer.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.

The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?