Quotes About Justice

It is good that the Canadians are raising the flag among Western countries to raise the issue of human rights abuse throughout the Middle East.

My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema.

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the rallies working on behalf of people of color.

I'm going to be the kind of congressperson where I'm going to be at rallies with the people, fighting for justice and being present and showing them that they have a fighter and a champion in Congress with them and for them.

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

The crime bill basically incentivized the prison system. There were quotas, mandatory minimums. You have to serve 85 percent of your time, so it is guaranteeing that bodies will always be locked up. And that went mostly towards minority communities and poor communities, where crime is more rampant.

I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.

My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for governor.

When my parents were arrested, I was a year old. And like so many children with incarcerated parents, I experienced a range of traumas connected to the separation. I was angry. I was ashamed. I had developmental delays, behavioral problems.

The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.

Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.

We'll get way further if we educate people and not lock them up.

We have to end Citizens United, and we have to do it united as a people. If we don't do it, our system is going to be further corrupted.

My future is righteousness.

I do not favor the gag order.

'Game of Thrones' couldn't be a movie. There's too much in it. You couldn't do it justice.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

I've always loved the genre of gangster films.

Every woman needs to know when she's being discriminated against and what the reasons are why she isn't getting equal pay so we can close that pay gap.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

I became personal friends with Erica Garner and with so many other families affected by police violence.

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

It should never be a crime to be gay.