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Quotes About Justice

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
~ John Amery
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to the most offended.
~ Dave Rubin
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.
~ Paul Mooney
A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.
~ Donald Glover
In a liberal democracy rapid, radical and fundamental economic change must benefit the many not the few, if it is to gain popular, long-term political support.
~ Clive Lewis
Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.
~ Bonnie Hammer
We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.
~ David Horsey
I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
~ Chuck Schumer
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
~ Paul Auster
Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
~ Medgar Evers
Justice can rarely exist without honesty.
~ Rain Dove
The path to equality is rarely easy.
~ Daniel Dae Kim
We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.
~ James Forman, Jr.
During the early 1990s, Mexico's domestic political sensitivities meant that it rarely extradited people who had committed crimes in the U.S. After NAFTA, extradition numbers began to increase until they surpassed 100 a year in the late 2000s.
~ James G. Stavridis
Much like the death sentence, I believe, hidden cameras should be used in the 'rarest of rare' cases.
~ Barkha Dutt
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
~ Rand Paul
America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.
~ W. Kamau Bell
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.
~ Eugene Jarecki
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
~ Gary Johnson
Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
~ Gary Johnson
The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
~ Sally Yates
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.
~ Michelle Alexander
Isn't it blatantly racist to assume blacks can't pass a simple civics exam in the same rates as others?
~ Tom Tancredo
School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
~ Clint Smith