Quotes About Justice

We need to move towards a truly just and equitable society by... making sure that every Canadian - whether they're living in long-term care or they're working part-time or they're students or they're Black or they're Indigenous - whatever their circumstances, can live in dignity and security.

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

I will always love the law; no matter what, I'll always find ways to participate in the law.

No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.

If Black and African-Americans could participate in our economy at the same level that others do, it'd be a boost to GDP growth.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

Equal pay for equal work isn't, 'Here, I'll give this to you.' It's confidence, it's participation.

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.

Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives.

North Carolina wants its judges to be fair and impartial, and partisan politics has no place on the judges' bench.

I was evicted because of the violence a former partner committed against me and believe no person should lose housing due to crimes committed against them by abusers.

I did not seek to sell U.S. secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks in the international community, I believe that we will see human rights for all people affirmed.

I want there to be a real partnership between the Department of Justice in Washington and U.S. attorneys.

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.