Quotes About Justice

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

After all we have been through, blacks and other minorities deserve to be protected, as anyone else.

There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served by that particular institution.

Laws that impinge your constitutionally protected right to earn an honest living must not be preposterous.

I want police to be protected.

I just hope that we get to a day where we all feel like we feel protected and served by our police force.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

In communities of color, such as Ferguson, it often feels like the police are protecting the white community from us instead of protecting our communities from the criminal element.

The bottom line is, our law enforcement is tasked with protecting us from harm - not with creating it by levying penalties for 'offenses' that present no real risk to anyone.

We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

New Yorkers have been fortunate to have Andrew Cuomo as our Attorney General - protecting working New Yorkers against the banks, insurance companies and big corporations.

I am always with poor and will continue work for protecting their interests.

For my part, let me be clear: protecting those in society most at risk of harm, those crushed at the bottom of the heap, those who have been abused by the very people who should have looked after them, is, as home secretary, my job, but I also see it is as my moral duty.

The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president's lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the United States, protecting the rule of law.

John Lewis was a giant in the face of adversity and injustice, putting his life on the line for our freedoms and committing his life to protecting the right to vote.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.