Rohini Nilekani Quotes

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Justice belongs to the people!

I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

Rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

The law courts of England are open to all men, like the doors of the Ritz Hotel.

Every person within this jurisdiction, whether inhabitant or foreigner, shall enjoy the same justice and law that is general for the plantation, which we constitute and execute one toward another without partiality or delay.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

We've begun to get justice.

More law, less justice.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.