Quotes About Justice

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

We are all humans and all deserve the same respect and attention.

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.