Quotes about Justice
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
I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.
— Hillary Clinton
Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
— Walt Whitman