Leonard Peltier Quotes

Justice is the right of the weakest.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

We've begun to get justice.

Equal Rights

The fundamental democratic principles on which American Society is organized, are those principles of justice and mercy by which the guilty, the ignorant, the needy, and the infirm, are saved and blessed.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

There is no freedom without justice.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.