Quotes About Justice

You served your country. That was an honorable thing." "I wish it were that simple," he said. "I risked my life and had no idea what I was fighting for—a corrupt dictatorship that represented almost everything we're fighting against?

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

Some of those demonstrations were over the Vietnam War. Some were over racial or gender inequality.

But that is how it is in the world—the wise are hung and the fools are glorified, at least while they are living.

Dear Lord, The Ripper walks the earth.

Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet's lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough. Imminent, at the speed of people, is too late. The law must judge imminent at the speed of trees.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

Ron Dellums, the Oakland boy who tried to stop

If pain were all that mattered, it would be as important to protect the rabbits from the foxes as to protect the Jews from the Nazis.

understanding de jure segregation,

By failing to recognize that we live with severe, enduring effects of de jure segregation, we avoid confronting our constitutional obligation to reverse it.

As American citizens, whatever routes we or our particular ancestors took to get to this point, we're all in this together now. Over the past few decades, we have developed euphemisms to help us forget how we, as a nation, have segregated African American citizens.

If I am right that we continue to have de jure segregation, then desegregation is not just a desirable policy; it is a constitutional as well as a moral obligation that we are required to fulfill.

In 1866, Congress enforced the abolition of slavery by passing a Civil Rights Act, prohibiting actions that it deemed perpetuated the characteristics of slavery. Actions that made African Americans second-class citizens, such as racial discrimination in housing, were included in the ban.

One of the more important books on American race relations of the past decade or more is Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, published in 2010.

bear a collective responsibility to enforce our Constitution and to rectify past violations whose effects endure.

We have created a caste system in this country, with African Americans kept exploited and geographically separate

Vito Marcantonio of New York, who argued on the House floor that "you have no right to use housing against civil rights. . . . Housing is advanced in the interest of the general welfare and in the interest of strength[en]ing democracy. When you separate civil rights from housing you weaken that general welfare.

Vito Marcantonio of New York, who argued on the the House floor that "you have no right to use housing against civil rights...Housing is advanced in the interest of the general welfare and in the interest of strength[en]ing democracy. When you separate civil rights from housing you weaken that general welfare.

He a user?" Samson nodded. And a pusher. But we never proved it. Got him for possession, that's all. He worked the black cigar from one side of his wide mouth to the other

you're just as dead whether they were born in a mansion or a slum, use a Magnum or a zip gun.

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But truth doesn't count / in law, only proof.

I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.