Quotes About Justice

There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen.

No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.

The CUAG specializes in providing support to Chinese human rights lawyers.

If you engage with the police, filled with fear, you're more likely to make really bad decisions that than provoke them to take action.

New Hampshire has always shown prudence and responsibility in its application of the death penalty.

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing.

Public housing is off-limits to you if you have been convicted of a felony. For a minimum of five years, you are deemed ineligible for public housing once you've been branded a felon. Discrimination in private housing market's perfectly legal.

Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.

All public officials, including the secretary of state, must be held accountable.

When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.

Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

Justice is not easy. It does not fit the mold of public opinion.

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Restoring the right to vote to individuals who have served their term in prison is also a common-sense public safety measure.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.