Quotes About Justice

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.

It's very difficult for the family members of ICE agents, and it's very difficult for ICE agents to know what's right and what's wrong and why should I get engaged and go out there and enforce the law when I don't know what it means any more to have consequences.

In my plan, I call for breaking up ICE and returning its enforcement functions to the Department of Justice.

I don't think there's anyone who is saying a life of a child in Idaho or Iowa means less than someone on the other side of the border.

The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

Everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off, because there is worth and goodness in every life... That is the Republican ideal. And if we won't defend it, who will?

For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

It's important to celebrate how far we have come while also fighting for justice for those who are still not safe as a result of how they identify.

We need to do a better job identifying what's contributing to the crime and making sure we hold people accountable in a way that addresses that root cause.

We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.

If we work to find common ground rather than fighting from entrenched, simplistic, ideological corners, we can have the safety we need and the justice we deserve.

We must remember that although we come from different backgrounds and ideologies, we're all part of this great experiment in self-governance. We're all united by common values of liberty, justice, and equality of opportunity, even if we don't always agree on how to achieve them.

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

The marriage equality ruling establishes for the American public where the majority already are - which is that love is love and discriminating against a human being based on love is idiotic.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

I've always felt in my own small, little way that if I could just write a story where it works out well, where the scales of justice are balanced, then that's something that I do really love to see in the world.