Quotes About Justice

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Racial profiling has to stop.

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

Im generally of the view that we should know the names of those who enacted and justified imperial power - but only if the glorifying can be supplemented with plaques that tell us the shameful histories of, for example active participation in the slave trade or highly successful and profitable lives extracted from slave plantations.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.

There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge.

Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

We support President Truman's civil rights program.

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.