Quotes About Justice

We have a community where almost 50 percent of the people in the city of Cleveland alone have some type of record. I represent one of the poorest districts in America - out of 435, I'm 422.

Those who promote hatred, bigotry, and fear do not represent America and do not represent us.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

To rightly recognize that men and women are equal under the law is perfectly removed from the fact that men and women are distinguishable beings that have been shaped by sex-specific evolutionary challenges. Accordingly, there is no reason to assume or expect that there should be equal representation of the two sexes across all contexts.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

A diverse elite may be good in its own right, as a matter of justice and representation. But nothing about being a woman or a minority makes you immune to meritocracy's ruthless solipsism.

The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter.

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

Legal aid is crucial in ensuring those truly guilty of crimes are convicted after due process, and those innocent are able to clear their names, by ensuring that access to legal representation is available for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

I am going to continue to fight for our democracy, for representation, for justice and equality and making the world a better place.

We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation.

If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.

Hopefully, we're moving toward a place where representation conversations won't have to happen so much because the playing field is more level.

I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people are going through.

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.

As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious as a nation about empowering every American to pursue his or her own dreams, then true cases of gender discrimination need to be confronted.

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.

It is our duty as representatives in Congress to do the most for everyone we represent, beginning with those who have the least.