Quotes About Justice

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Piaget is correct in assuming a culturally universal age development of a sense of justice, involving progressive concern for the needs and feelings of others and elaborated conceptions of reciprocity and equality.

Imagine a progressive president fighting to fix the insane economic inequality in the country or to end the senseless drug war or, best of all, battling to get money out of politics. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.

The Americans I know are not willing to abandon our police and our great Democratic experiment to the pathetic cowardice - or worse - of the progressive Left.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

It is imperative that Democrats take a stand and embrace Medicare for All and other progressive policies that address the needs of millions of Americans.

A fairer system bases itself on actual outcomes - if you earn more you pay more, through progressive income tax.

I'm ready to fight, and I'm ready to make sure progressive includes progress.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.

This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move closer to that promise, little by little, one day at a time. It may not be easy - but we'll get there together.

Obama can show that America's promise of equality not only means that anyone can reach the highest office in the land - it also means that everyone is equally subject to the law.

America promised equality. Its constitution said so. My schoolbooks said so. The country wasn't perfect, to be sure. But its ideals were. And every day brought us closer to those ideals.

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.

We have two options - to continue living in poverty and empty promises or build a Belarus that we deserve.

I've heard many women say that they were afraid to come out or they were too ashamed to talk about it because they thought it was something they had done to promote the man to sexually harass them - and that is not the case.

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.