Quotes About Justice

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

I am passionate about human rights.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

I am a passionate civil libertarian.

I want to work on cases that I feel the most passionate about.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

I will join the fight for the DREAM Act that will create a pathway to citizenship for our Dreamers.

You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.

America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's easy to have the media pick up on something, and it's hard to have the patience to put something in place you can build on that will make sure each citizen has their equal rights.

We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to patriarchy. But feminism is about being equal. The word used should be 'equalist,' as it is about all humans being equal and respecting each other for that.

Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community's coast guard.

Well, I don't believe in patronage.

People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.

I stand alongside everyone campaigning for better pay and conditions - they are paving the way for a fairer society.