Quotes About Justice

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.

Everyone needs a place to live. Everyone needs a place to come home to every night. I don't understand why our society, our government, can think that you can lock a person away for months or years... and then release them back after they pay their debt without any support and expect it to be okay.

As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that someone you release will end up committing another crime, potentially a serious crime, during a period when they otherwise would have been incarcerated.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

At the very least, Secretary Clinton should publicly call for the unequivocal release of Saeed Abedini.

In 1990 there were about 300 scripts being written demanding the release of Nelson Mandela. And suddenly we watched Mandela walking out of prison. So those scripts had to be destroyed.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

Had my parents not had visas, had my parents not had the resources to hire lawyers, I would be a DREAM Act kid, too.

It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney.

Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.

It is right to give every man his due.

Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.

Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No, I don't. Are there instances in which that happens? I'm sure there are.

When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

I sometimes think they should have said 'Black Lives Matter Too,' because that is really what is being said. The outcry is that historically and presently, the feeling is that black lives don't matter as much as white lives because we don't see the same type of things happening to them.

Black women have historically had the most to lose and have therefore been the fiercest fighters for justice.

Creating more characters that represent historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people in television and film is certainly important.

Currently, many job seekers must check a box on their applications indicating whether they have a criminal history. These boxes are often used as proxies for job fitness, and job-seekers with criminal histories frequently find themselves screened out of contention. As a matter of basic fairness and also economic sense, it's time to ban the box.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

There's good cops and bad cops, and the good cops have to hold the bad cops accountable. We have to hold the bad cops accountable, too.

Be aware and hold the government accountable.