Quotes About Justice

Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.

Terrorism is the vanguard of a general revenge against the West's wealth.

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

We have to stop letting people come in here and make millionaires and billionaires of themselves off of West Virginia while West Virginia remains poor.

In the absolute majority of western democracies - elected officials are the ones who appoint the highest bench in the judicial system. There is no reason for us to lag behind.

When you look at human rights, look at gender, and the rights of girls for education in the world - that are crucial issues - some are saying 'Oh, these are western values.' But these are really universal values.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever.

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

Republicans will never turn a blind eye to unjust acts, but neither will we accept an all-out assault on Western civilization.

It's very easy for the U.S. or Western Europe to have this moral line of right versus wrong, and you go, 'Well, that's breaking the law.' 'Why?' 'Because it's the law.'

To be happy about the fall of one powerful man is to know there are another 10 that need to follow.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.