Quotes About Justice

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

I believe the Constitution matters: that it's not just a few pieces of paper.

Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, is the American dream.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on. And that is an important pillar of our democracy.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.

Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

I am proud to say that our industry is making films like 'PINK,' 'Maatr,' and 'Mom.'

Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.

We must end the school-to-prison pipeline and create a pipeline from our high schools and community colleges directly to jobs for those who choose not to attend a four-year college.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

I love football and I believe in fair play, both on and off the pitch.

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.

In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

I think the sense of fairness in humans is very strongly developed, and that's why we react so strongly to all the bonuses received by Wall Street executives. We want to know why they deserve these benefits.