Quotes About Justice

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

It's very difficult, but if I'm talking from my personal view and what I do as a job, which is playing football, how the Premier League and football handles racism should be with great severity because there's no place for it in the world.

There is a strong social premise in our country and I feel today freedom is being misused and not used.

I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

How long do we have to keep fighting for affordable prescription drugs?

I don't want folks with pre-existing medical conditions - like asthma and diabetes - to be denied health care. I sure don't want to see our grandparents paying more for prescription drugs and women paying more just because of their gender.

I will not rest until seniors get the cost-of-living adjustments they have earned and we lower the cost of prescription drugs.

When you have a lot of people playing different characters, you need to do justice to every character and bring meaning to their presence in the script.

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

We created #BlackLivesMatter. We created a platform. We used our social media presence online in order to forward a conversation about what is taking place in black communities.

I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

On a daily basis, I think it's really important to be conscious of gender-based discrimination - which presents in sometimes more, but often less, obvious forms - and do everything possible to defeat that discrimination.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Bottom line is that there's bad people everywhere. And every now and again, we are going to have to step to them to make sure that we preserve our way of life.

Sometimes when you're defending people, you have to admit there was something that's not quite right, and that preserves some credibility.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?