Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

In the dispensation of justice, no distinction is to be admitted, whether between the man of wealth or the poor man, the master or the slave, the European or the Hottentot.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

Justice and Fairness to All

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike.

You shall have one law for the stranger and citizen alike.

Equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens without distinction of color, sex or nationality.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

Racial preferences are dead. All that is required now is to give them a decent and honorable burial.

We, as a party, are colour-blind.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals' idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or physical attributes.

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Fairness is what justice really is.

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.