We Want Justice Quotes

#1. Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

Quentin Tarantino

#2. Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.

John Grisham

#3. Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

Janet Reno

#4. So then, perhaps there would be more justice in the bigger and it would be easier to observe closely. If you want, first we'll investigate what justice is like in the cities. Then, we'll also go on to consider it in individuals, considering the likeness of the bigger in the idea24 of the littler?

Plato

#5. Justice must always prevail
Our solution is the key
Never give in, never give up
Until our leaders must agree
Compromise is not an option
If we truly want to be free!

Larry Pinsky

#6. We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

Desmond Tutu

#7. What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#8. We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.

Betty Williams

#9. Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

Pope Francis

#10. The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.

William K. Sessions

#11. Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

#12. The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be.

Bell Hooks

#13. The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the ... the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

George W. Bush

#14. Justice as fairness provides what we want.

John Rawls

#15. And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.

Desmond Tutu

#16. We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

Glenn Beck

#17. We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.

Chief Joseph

#18. From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

George Carey

#19. I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

Tom Coburn

#20. The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

Janet Reno

#21. All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

Paul Tillich

#22. We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

Thomas Paine

#23. When there is injustice someone should speak. When there is unfairness someone should act.
We cannot have liberty and justice for all if we only want it only for ourselves. We must serve God in humble righteousness.

Tom Krause

#24. We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy!

Joshua Wong

#25. We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

Emiliano Zapata

#26. We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.

Allen Johnson

#27. I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#28. We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

Sydney J. Harris

#29. It's natural to want mercy for yourself but justice for others. It's natural to be very aware of the sin others, yet blind to your own. If we are ever going to be people of mercy, we need bountiful mercy ourselves, because what stands in the way of our being a community of mercy is us.

Paul David Tripp

#30. Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe in justice and I believe that justice is a constant struggle, and if I want to create justice, then I have to get comfortable with struggle.

Bryan Stevenson

#31. Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

Gary Haugen

#32. All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

John Ashcroft

#33. Lord, remind us that it is not always agitated uprisings and nonstop activity which lead to justice, but that change often comes through the quietcommitment of a small group of people. Help us raise our small body of people to set about quietly becoming the change we want to see in the world. Amen.

Shane Claiborne

#34. We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

Dan Burton

#35. I just remember, all I'm doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster. It said: "Wanted, Dead or Alive." All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That's what we want.

George W. Bush

#36. Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.

Frances Power Cobbe

#37. This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We [ conservatives] want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution.

Ann Coulter

#38. Even if it remained for 10 more years, it is not the commission that will solve the justice situation, it is us, the Guatemalans, who must see if we truly want to fix our institutions, strengthen them and move forward.

Otto Perez Molina

#39. What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.

Barack Obama

#40. My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.

Richard D. Kahlenberg

#41. If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

Bell Hooks

#42. The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

Edward Hirsch

#43. All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must.

Michael Wright

#44. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning.

Angelina Jolie

#45. Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself.

Josh McDowell

#46. The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

#47. If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

Mairead Corrigan

#48. I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.

Zack Snyder

#49. There's a principle here, and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.

Michael Newdow

#50. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#51. Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

Ban Ki-moon

#52. Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone they want. And we all ugly people will wait holding our dicks in our hands.

M.F. Moonzajer

#53. Can you guess what I'm doing?"
"Cutting my heart out."
"You took mine when I was ten; I want yours now. We are lovers of justice, you and I - what could be more just than that?

William Goldman

#54. It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Alice Walker

#55. Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?

Whoopi Goldberg

#56. The obligations of citizens is to make it clear that Aboriginal issues are central to our public concerns, that we want them dealt with in a fully democratic context of openness and justice, that we will vote accordingly.

John Ralston Saul