Quotes About Justice

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.

The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.

We're willing to spend countless dollars putting people who need help in cages, and then when they get out we say you can't have a job, and you can't have housing, and because you don't have either, we're going to take your kids, too.

Every American has a right to food, housing, and health care - and we can afford to provide it if billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.

If you feel your rights are being abused by the authorities, and you don't say something, sometimes the cops don't know how far to take it. They have a hard job, but at the same time, I think it's just about educating yourself.

I say to the women out there, remember how difficult it was for women like Justice O'Connor starting out. Even though she graduated with top grades, she had to take a job as a legal secretary. Remember how far we have come.

We have Russia, on a serial basis, abusing Interpol... The moral of this story is that if a country wants to abuse Interpol they can just keep abusing Interpol and it doesn't really matter how many times they do it.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

No matter where they live or how much money their parents make, every child deserves access to high-quality health care.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

I believe that abortion is the taking of human life.

If we care about life and the dignity of all life, then we care about the dignity of all life, and that includes the human life of children.

I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.