Quotes About Justice

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.

Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter - we've seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn't see in Daddy's era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.

White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so entrenched.

White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

How can we bridge the gap between... African-American males and white cops?

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

In a law enforcement situation, black people are not always treated the same as white people would be.

Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of bridges across lines of moral justice.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

The White House wants us talking about racism and the justice system because they use it as a springboard to scare Americans about looting, aided by Fox News running episodes of violence on an incessant loop, that their hearts and minds won't be able to look past the fear to see injustice.

On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We sat down on the sidewalk in front of the White House with a banner that read 'One Million Deported Under President Obama' and refused to move when the police ordered us to.