Quotes About Justice

Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen. Our Constitution was always intended to grow and adapt as we formed a more perfect union, established justice, and ensured peace, security, and the blessings of liberty.

I love the Constitution. But it's still a document, meant to protect human beings and ensure their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

There are more and more of us women out there who won't be pushed around and will give back a lot more than was bargained for. You have to mean it, though.

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions - pushes kids out of classrooms and into our ever-growing system of mass incarceration.

We must never stop pushing for equal protection under the law in Pennsylvania and across the country.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.

We have to open hearts and change minds while at the same time pushing for laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination.

Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing that agenda.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

Interpol was set up to catch fugitives, not act like the long arm of Putin going after his enemies.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.

I certainly believe in a type of Rooney Rule - in legislation that doesn't give black and ethnic individuals a job but, at least, puts them in the frame.

I am an activist for putting an end to the criminalisation of abortion.

If you're an evil company who's casting minorities to be in your commercial to get the politically correct card, it's like putting a band-aid over a bigger problem. But I think it's an incredible start.

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.