Top 92 Quotes About Equal Justice
#1. There's no such thing as equal justice anywhere. It's unsettling to a society when you try to achieve such a false balance.
Frank Herbert
#2. Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?
Edward Kennedy
#3. They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.
Leonard Peltier
#4. 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
#5. They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
Robert Toombs
#6. We should ... be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.
Richard Mitchell
#7. Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.
Max Anders
#8. The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.
Ken Starr
#9. There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.
Hugo Black
#10. You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.
Eric Schneiderman
#11. That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
Eric Schneiderman
#12. When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.
Oliver
#13. Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.
Edward Kennedy
#14. Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#15. The true natural rights of men, then, are equal justice, security of labor and property, the amenities of civilized institutions, and the benefits of orderly society.
Russell Kirk
#16. He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.
B. Margoliouth
#17. You could say that I worked every minute of my life, or you could say with equal justice that I never worked a day.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#18. My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.
Eric Schneiderman
#19. I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.
Samuel Dash
#20. The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
Burke Marshall
#21. It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.
Christopher Dodd
#22. Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
Eric Schneiderman
#23. Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law?
Edward Kennedy
#24. Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U.S. so as to carry equal justice to them.
George Mason
#25. America you are beautiful ... and blessed ... The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.
Pope John Paul II
#26. We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.
Jacque Fresco
#27. Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
Miguel De Cervantes
#28. Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.
Sayyid Qutb
#30. Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
Lucy Stone
#31. It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya Angelou
#32. In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.
Susan Faludi
#33. An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.
Woodrow Wilson
#34. A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.
John F. Kennedy
#35. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Abraham Lincoln
#36. What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
Horace
#37. Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
William Jennings Bryan
#38. Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.
Anil Sinha
#39. Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Thucydides
#40. I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal;
Thomas More
#41. Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.
Kevin DeYoung
#42. You live in Ram's kingdom, hold your head high. Fight for justice. Treat all as equal. Protect the weak. Know that dharma is above all. Hold your head high, You live in the kingdom of Ram.
Amish Tripathi
#43. Common sense was sufficient to determine that it could not mean that all men were equal in fact, but in right, not all equally tall, strong, wise, handsome, active, but equally men . . . the work of the same Artist, children in the same cases entitled to the same justice. Nabby
David McCullough
#44. Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?
Bell Hooks
#45. Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.
Aristotle.
#46. We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
Peter Hain
#47. Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
Rufus Choate
#48. Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
#49. I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.
Isaac Parker
#50. The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.
George William Curtis
#51. In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Abu Bakr
#52. We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
Lucy Stone
#54. To do good, to love justice, to grant that all men had an equal right to a pleasant life, these things Kung Chen believed in, and believing, he did all he could to perform his belief.
Pearl S. Buck
#55. A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.
Edward Gibbon
#56. NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.
Xavier Becerra
#57. Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.
Xunzi
#58. The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
#59. If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.
Auliq Ice
#60. Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
Frances Wright
#61. I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
Peter Tosh
#62. At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.
Martin Guevara Urbina
#63. We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
Annie Lennox
#64. It is not to the moderation and justice of others we are to trust for fair and equal access to market with out productions, or for our due share in the transportation of them; but to our own means of independence, and the firm will to use them.
Thomas Jefferson
#65. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.
Lilly Ledbetter
#67. When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
James Thurber
#68. Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.
Jerry Brown
#69. For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.
Thucydides
#70. The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
Qiu Jin
#71. The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#72. For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.
Aristotle.
#73. And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image.
George W. Bush
#74. Justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
Carson McCullers
#75. When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.
Peter Hain
#76. The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
Tecumseh
#77. I want to believe his sense of justice is equal to my love for him, but these are deep waters, and I know friends can lie just as well as enemies.
Pierce Brown
#78. Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
Miguel De Cervantes
#79. We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.
John F. Kerry
#80. Poise the cause in justice's equal scales,
Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
William Shakespeare
#81. I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.
Martin Delany
#82. Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#83. A king who is renowned for mercy," said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.
Rachel Neumeier
#84. It would take a God with equal measures of truth, love, and justice to [give us a metanarrative]. Since I had abandoned that faith in God and considered myself secular, that wasn't a real option for me.
Charles Colson
#85. Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.
Rick Santorum
#86. Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.
Jimmy Carter
#87. I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
Helen Suzman
#88. The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. 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
#90. This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
Thomas Browne
#91. In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.
Frederick Lenz
#92. You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and the weak concede what they must. (Said by Athenian envoy to the Melians)
Thucydides
