Quotes About Justice

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

If student A 'impacts' student B with a fist, they shouldn't 'dialogue as equals.' Student A should be disciplined. When you assault your co-worker or curse out your boss, you don't get a 'restorative circle' - you get fired.

I know some people believe impartiality is key, and it's necessary in some situations, but in others - if something is so fundamentally wrong, why do we have to make out we're impartial?

To be effective at delivering a decent life for all, the U.N. must treat all the people it serves with impartiality and respect.

To be clear, impeachment is above all else a political act.

A President can obstruct justice and Congress has the full right to hold a President accountable for such law-breaking through impeachment. After a President leaves office, I believe they may be held accountable through the courts as well.

The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.

While it is true that all individuals are equal under the law, this hardly implies that they are created equal.

War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Ethics are more important than laws.

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

I've been in movement work since I was 16 years old. Black Lives Matter becomes an important part of the story, but it's not the only part of the story.

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.

Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?

Pretrial detentions of any length can have devastating consequences for a defendant and their families, and therefore should be imposed with great care.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

Whether you happen to be a gay man in Tanzania or someone who's imprisoned in Tanzania, it's your human right to have access to health care.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?