Quotes About Justice

In the more than four decades since Roe v. Wade, it has become clear that some will stop at nothing to obstruct women's reproductive rights.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees women across this country, including my daughters, the right to choose for themselves when and how to start their families. Yet, more than forty years after Roe v. Wade, women's reproductive rights remain in jeopardy.

Our courts' decisions do not permeate the public consciousness - we have no equivalent of the Brown v Board of Education ruling which outlawed racial segregation, or of Roe v Wade, which enshrined a woman's right to choose not just into law but into the public imagination as well.

I promise to fight against any attempts to undermine Roe v. Wade in the Senate.

We will not rest until Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Roe versus Wade is the settled law of the land.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

People will say 'how can you have a plane when your workers are on minimum wage?' I said 'but I don't set the minimum wage.' If the minimum wage would be the living wage, then the Government who set the rules should set it at the living wage. That's how I look at it.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Like how on earth can you make 180 grand as a senator with luxe health care and sit there and be like Nero, thumbs up or down, on paying someone a living wage? I don't understand that.

When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.

The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens.