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Quotes About Justice

Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
~ Tim Minchin
What goes around, comes around.
~ Willie Nelson
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
~ Clarence Thomas
I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.
~ Bill McCollum
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
~ Kelly Ayotte
It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly.
~ John Morrison
A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours
~ Andrei Sakharov
There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.
~ Irene Khan
Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect
~ Joan Dunayer
Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.
~ Jay Sekulow
Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
~ Marcus Garvey
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
~ James A. Baldwin
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
~ Roscoe Pound
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
~ John Milton
All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.
~ Pope Francis
The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.
~ John Hume
Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.
~ Tony Fernandes
Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."
~ John Hope Bryant
Respect me, or put me to death.
~ Malcolm X
When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.
~ Shirin Ebadi
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
~ John Locke
Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.
~ Michael Sandel