Quotes About Justice

I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.

I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

The good thing about doing a comic that's entirely my own voice as a debut is that people approached me with similar jobs, with stuff that they knew that I could do justice to because they had read what I'd already done. It meant that I was getting jobs that I was actually interested in, and I didn't have to prove myself on someone else's property.

Equal protection under the law mandates that similarly situated criminal defendants be treated equally, regardless of financial means.

The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that someone convicted of the same crime is more likely to face the death penalty if they are black.

I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.

You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

When you're left on the floor of a hospital gasping for breath, or you can't get your kid a school place, the simplest things are your idea of radical.

As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?'

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.

If the upper realm is, as Plato suggested, the sphere of perfect love, truth, justice, and beauty, then the artist seeks to call down the magic of this world and to create, by dint of labor and luck, the closest-to-sublime simulacra of those qualities that he or she can.

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it's our job to realize it and get down to business.

The American people... have had enough of sacrificing their sons and daughters in the name of some illusory world order; they want someone else's sons and daughters to bear the burden. The American people are willing to pay for this privilege, in cash and in the circumscription of their own liberty.

the man who really loves his country is not the one who refuses to attack it when he has been unjustly driven from it, but the man whose desire for it is so strong that he will shrink from nothing in his efforts to get back there again.

Who slays a tyrant is no murderer but patriot. A deliverer of his country, as Harmodius and Aristogeiton!

A Jew asks over and over, "What is fair? What is just? Who is a good man, and why?

The field is leveled only in heaven.

Quando un essere umano uccide un animale per mangiarlo, soffoca la propria aspirazione alla giustizia. L'uomo invoca misericordia, ma è incapace di manifestarla agli altri. Perché allora dovrebbe aspettarsi la misericordia da Dio?

You're unsure what you think of him, a fact you pride yourself on. It defines you, this willingness to hear all sides, love everyone. You've stopped believing in evil. Is that a sin? You know what your mother would say, but justice needs to be fair-handed, the dead deserve your compassion. It's your job to understand, to forgive, not simply your custom.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

In struggle one not only fights against something--injustice, oppression--but one must struggle for something equally real but positive. That's the other part of the equation.

No temas, porque yo estoy contigo; no desmayes, porque yo soy tu Dios que te esfuerzo; siempre te ayudaré, siempre te sustentaré con la diestra de mi justicia.