Quotes About Justice

Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.

I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.

Thieves must sit in prison.

The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

If you're going to educate the public and tell them how things happen in the courtroom, then you really owe them the duty to do it right. Don't misinform.

What fixes your spirit when Ferguson happens? When Trayvon Martin and those kind of things happen, they hurt your spirit; it hurts your heart and your soul. You need something to fix it.

Players have already done a lot of groundwork trying to fight systems, I think we have to continue to do that, and as things happen to play out.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith.

I don't think every offensive comment is racism. But when I see real prejudice I have to call it out.

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave dweller to serious thinker, from cruelly retributive law to merciful law, from casual barbarism to care and compassion.

Democracy is essential for equality. Thank God, Indian democracy is still working. That is because every Indian is essentially a thinker. Thinking is not limited to the elite.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Every man thinks god is on his side.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.