Justice Quotes

I've laid out a platform that I think would begin to remedy some of the problems we have in the criminal justice system.

We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.

[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt.

Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.

The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him

Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it. Everybody has the capacity for change.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.