Quotes About Justice

We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

Benjamin Zephaniah

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

Deporting asylum seekers back to violence does not reflect the values of our country.

Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.

As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.

We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and gender as well as to a character's sexual preference.

I meet many inspiring individuals who have worked hard to rebuild their lives after an attack; however, it can be hard to stay motivated when the justice system does not always reflect the severity of these crimes.

Aside from my own fight, I was continuously engaged in the fight for others. So, for decades, all I did was fight. What that did to me is it didn't give me the time to reflect on my own feelings.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their current offense.

A social consciousness should be reflected in your poetry.

Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.

We had a cop or two that were questionable, and probably they shouldn't have been on the job, but they were. You have that: a police department reflects the community that it serves, and it's going to have a bad apple or two, but when those bad apples are discovered, they need to be discarded as quickly as possible so the whole bureau doesn't rot.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

We need to hold accountable anyone who has misused power, and put that power to work for the common good. That includes, but goes beyond, police reform.

Without the reform of the justice system, there is no possibility of building a just state.

We need comprehensive immigration reform. Dr. King wouldn't be pleased at all to know that there are millions of people living in the shadow, living in fear in places like Georgia and Alabama.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.