Justice Equality Quotes

We all require equal access to the justice system.

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.

I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.

In a democratic society...Islam cannot be the exclusive preserve of the ulama [religious bodies]. How can it be when Islamic laws affect our very way of life? The decision-making process must be participatory and must reflect the diverse and changing nature of Malaysian society. Those practices and legal provisions that give the ulama the sole power to decide on matters of religion and criminalize those with differing opinions must be abrogated. The Constitution must be amended to ensure uniformity of laws and one standard of justice for all. If the ulama continue to remain oblivious to the palpable change that pervades a quickly modernizing, multi-ethnic Malaysia, they run the risk of making themselves increasingly irrelevant to the lives of their people.

The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

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

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

We cannot create the perception that if you're rich or famous or both that you got one set of justice - and for everybody else it's something much harsher. That won't do and we need to make sure that we have a criminal justice system that has integrity.

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

The proposed 14th Amendment allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States, so far that the law which operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all.

Don’t conflate the morality of the death penalty with its unjust distribution among those who are guilty … Equality is less important, morally, than justice … We ought to distribute justice as equally as we can, even though we cannot distribute it perfectly.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

It's important to celebrate how far we have come while also fighting for justice for those who are still not safe as a result of how they identify.

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

I do not think education is necessary to give justice to the poor.

I think Peter Norman recuperated in the sense that people who knew who Peter Norman was, he built his character around the legacy of his family, in terms of what they taught him about equality and justice for all.

It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general withtheir vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.