Quotes About Justice

We hold that same sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all states.

Choosing when and whether to have a baby is a fundamental right for all women, no matter where they live.

I would simply not compromise on the fundamental rights of people.

You know, all work has dignity. I fundamentally believe that. So all paychecks must have dignity.

There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

Our response to crises cannot be adding more and more police funding.

Those who embezzle public funds should be ready to face the consequences.

God's justice, as Desmond Tutu insisted, is not retributive but restorative.64 It is natural that many do not understand this, because "God's love, resisted, is felt as wrath.

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; [...] il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées

2014, the Justice Department reported that 6 percent of all black men age thirty to thirty-nine were in prison; the rate for Hispanic men the same age was 2 percent, and it was 1 percent for white men in that age group. It is also important to note that even now, if property crimes are included with violent crimes, 69 percent of all crimes reported to the police

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong -Emma

She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.

Set a thief to catch a thief

And I'll do whatever is necessary to clear his name.

A woman would have to be crazy to marry, or even have sex with, a man who would prosecute every lover's quarrel like a criminal case

You touch that young woman, and I will see you hang.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. JOHN F. KENNEDY

those selling abortion don't want them to have [the facts], Virginia said heatedly. Besides the Supreme Court doesn't agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we knew the facts, so they decided women don't have the right to know the full truth. She shook her head. They've made it legal to withhold vital information, even when a woman requests it, for heaven's sake!

si Dios solamente fuera justo, todos pereceríamos; hasta el último ser humano sobre la faz de la tierra. ¿No lo ves? ¿Nunca has matado en tu corazón? Yo lo negué cuando me dio oportunidades de proclamarlo ante otros y dejé que mi miedo prevaleciera. Gracias a Dios porque Él es misericordioso.