Quotes About Justice

I'll go back and take what the people owe me.

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.

Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean McConville. Jean McConville.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

I believe the U.S. government owes it to the American people to tell them the truth about what is happening in Guantanamo.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

I'm always on the players' side, of course. The owners are going to take their fill, but I'm always on the players' side.

Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

We want to say to everyone: New Jersey's a place where gender does not play a role in how much you get paid.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

Men and women should be paid equally.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

If I criticize my country, it is indeed very painful for me. It doesn't make me happy. But, if I see something wrong, it becomes my duty to speak up.

Our country has a painful history of mistrust between police departments and people of color. The overuse of stop-and-frisk has made those divisions much worse.

Every time I see corruption, it pains me.

If you have an issue with someone, call them out. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.