Quotes About Justice

President Trump's executive order creating a Muslim ban undermines the foundational ideals of the United States, a nation founded by immigrants.

I think it's so important we're a nation of laws but also a nation of immigrants.

I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.

We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs.

If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally responsible when they do not.

Every year, thousands of immigrants, asylum seekers and migrants assume great hardships to find safety in America. They choose our country because they see the United States as a land of justice, as a place of safety, and a beacon of hope.

For too long, our immigration system has failed to live up to the ideals and principles our nation was founded on.

I am more than an immigration activist.

I always thought I'd become an immigration lawyer.

We will not lift a single finger or spend a single cent to be a cog in the Trump deportation machine, and we won't be complicit in his effort to make American great again by reengineering the legal immigration system.

I served as Attorney General John Ashcroft's chief adviser on immigration law at the U.S. Department of Justice during 2001-03.

We are a nation of laws and we must enforce our immigration laws.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

I think there's something fundamentally wrong with thinking that there's a God who looks after you but kills everyone else. There's something, if not immoral, then gross, about it.

The law is immoral.

I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back.

I will call out someone if he's Islamophobic, and I will also call out anti-Semitism. It's immoral to call out one and not the other.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.

No one can be immune from our laws; everyone must be held to account.

I think the law is equal for everyone and no one is immune from the law of the nation, the legal system.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

I think, in terms of activism associated with my films, be it 'Salaam Baalak Trust' or 'Maisha,' taking the idea of cinema as a way to change people, I feel heartened. I am glad that we have impacted thousands of lives.