Quotes About Justice

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

It's time for America to get right.

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. Did God feel good about that? He felt powerful.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

It's been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come

All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.