Demand For Justice Quotes

#1. The repeated demand for "justice," incorporated into the names of many Islamist parties, reflects not so much a demand for social equality as a demand for equal treatment under the law.

Francis Fukuyama

#2. The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.

Marty Rubin

#3. If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

Ida B. Wells

#4. Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Susan Neiman

#5. I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#6. That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

Martin Luther

#7. In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.

John Howard Griffin

#8. People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

Helen Garner

#9. Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.

Jesse Jackson

#10. When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.

John Howard Griffin

#11. I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.

William Walker

#12. We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

Vandana Shiva

#13. I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

Ahmed Chalabi

#14. I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.

Juan Ponce Enrile

#15. It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

James Mackintosh

#16. Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

Zebulon Pike

#17. Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

Aristotle.

#18. The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Franz Grillparzer

#19. There must be reserves
except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

Margaret Deland

#20. Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

Frances Beinecke

#21. If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.

John Piper

#22. Some have said I should demand that the surviving members of Unit 731 be brought to justice. But what does that mean? I am no longer a child. I do not want to see trials, parades, spectacles. The law does not give you real justice.

Ken Liu

#23. We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton