Quotes About Justice

As a district judge, I view my role quite differently than the role of legislators.

Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?

It's a bit disturbing to me that people have to evolve to the idea that people are equal.

It is not enough to pay lip service to diversity.

I'm all for diversity - but diversity for deserving people.

I can't even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters.

We need to combat Trump's agenda to make sure he can't divide our families.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

I've experienced Islamophobic stuff. But I don't care - you can say whatever you want to say about me, but I am who I am. I think that what I'm trying to fight for and what I'm performing for is bigger than any religion, race, creed, or class.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

Exploding crime is not something that rights itself.

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

Certain people should not be allowed to exploit the law, to decide the only way to engage in politics is to accuse others of lying.

If we created a society based on love, it would be a society without exploitation.

Well, being a black man in America and growing up in this society, my view of the justice system is pretty much set. I've been exploited and abused by it myself, so I feel it's broken, it's biased.

What I'm not about is exploiting women.

While I sat in family court, I probably heard 20 or 25,000 cases. And I am sure, during the course of those cases, there were cases that I probably would've decided differently had I had either more time or been able to explore more. But all you can do as a judge is really give a case your best effort.

Utilitarianism is a philosophy from the olden days exploring the idea that whatever is best for the majority is the fairest.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

It is the harassers and assaulters who make us 'look bad,' not the women who have every right to expose crimes against them.