Quotes About Justice

As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.

I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Thou shalt not ration justice.

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

Caste hasn't been a part of creative thoughts and it never will be.

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

One mustn't lose sight of the hard core, which is, do this, do that, love your friends, like your neighbors, be just, be extravagantly generous, be honest, be tolerant, have courage, have compassion, use your wits and your imagination, understand the world you live in and be on terms with it, don't dramatize and dream and escape. Anyhow that seems to be the pattern.

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

COMMUNISM When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist. Helder Camara