Quotes About Justice

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.