Quotes About Justice

From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

In the end, crime doesn't pay.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

Inaction will always have a disproportionate impact on those who are the most disadvantaged.

The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

If I see, hear, or experience anything that I feel is inappropriate, you bet I'm going to speak up.

I stand by all the women who have had to deal with inappropriate behavior of any sort.

The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice.

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought to be responding to poor folks of color and a consensus in support of basic human rights for all. But it is going to take some work.

The mass incarceration going on in this country and with my people is crazy.

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there.

While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If all we do is end mass incarceration, this movement will not have gone nearly far enough.

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.

Any incarnation of 'Batman' I am delighted to do.

Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.

Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since the inception of this country, which was not founded on ideals of justice.