Quotes About Justice

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

Bob Riley, a kind soul who "treads lightly in this world," is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.