Quotes About Justice

I stand with the working-class citizens.

My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of a middle-class background, whose father had prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg.

Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family to go to university.

The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party that looks out for the working-class citizens.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.

Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

I believe in creating a workplace where a deep sense of justice underpins everything we do.

We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace.

All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pioneer and a role model for women across America. She is the reason women like me not only believed we had a right to be in the workplace, but were guaranteed it. She won us equality, and then showed us how to succeed.

We must ensure strong, fair and robust workplace rights remain in our country's DNA.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

If each of us works toward making a sincere effort when we wake up each morning with a renewed commitment and dedication to embracing nonviolence as a lifestyle, this world will become a better place, bringing us ever closer to the Beloved Community of which my father so often spoke.

Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.