Quotes about Justice
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
— James K. Polk
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
— Abraham Lincoln
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
— Margaret Fell
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
— Thomas Paine
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
— Aristotle
I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.
— Nelson Mandela
We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.
— Hillary Clinton
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
— George H. W. Bush
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
— Jacques Maritain
I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
— Aristotle
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
— Thomas Paine