Justice Quotes - Page 33

There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.

Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?

I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

When you say you want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as I want to do something about racial justice. Saying I want to hold police accountable is doing something. Saying that I want to take money out of politics, big money, is doing something.

A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

Law and justice are not always the same.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.