Quotes About Justice

Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.

The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme.

If being an advocate of peace, justice, and humanity toward all human beings is radical, then I'm glad to be called radical. And if it is radical to oppose the use of 70 percent of federal monies for destruction and war, then I am a radical.

Electing radical reformers as district attorneys is huge. It's essential.

I'm not a criminal or a radical. I'm not 'dangerous.' I'm a human being with opinions and beliefs that I have a right to express.

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies into prison, and to keep police officers out of it.

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

I look forward to continuing to serve the people of New York and making our state a safer place to live, work and raise families for many years to come.

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.

I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.

Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side.