Quotes About Justice

Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.

Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.

I have experienced power as a journalist. On three different occasions, when I wrote about individual immigrants or refugees, the article - or, in one case, my presence in the courtroom - appeared to positively change the outcome of their cases.

The refusal to snitch out of a pathological hatred for police is nothing new.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.

My truculent opponents are out to settle scores that have nothing to do with Sherpa, and I refuse to allow my enemies to drag my Sherpa family into their fight with me.

For one moment, after I left Jerusalem with my family for life in Illinois, I thought that maybe there's still a chance: maybe there are still enough people in Israel who refuse to rule and oppress another nation.

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.

One should at least have some self-righteous ego. Not in the sense that you refuse to apologise even when judges reason with you to apologise. Self-righteous ego in the sense that nobody can force you to apologise if there is no reason to do so.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.

Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.

I worked with Dalton Trumbo, who served time for refusing to give up names of people that were accused of being Communists. I've always admired him.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.

I have the highest possible regard for the district attorneys in the State of New York.

To criticize the attorney general for permitting justice to be done without regard to political party is very disturbing.