“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.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsBelieveHelpingJusticeChanceDon't BelieveHonestlyEquality And Justice Author:Angelina Jolie
“As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsMatterGovernmentJobsLawOrderJusticeKnownHigherToolsFunctionCourtProductionsCreditProofStatementsAppealsWagesGetting HighJurisdictionTariffsRise Against Author:Frederic Bastiat
“It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.” PeopleWayMeanPersonsPlayHandsWealthJusticeRacePrinciplesMillionsEconomicColorWillingDemandFairsGoodsOpennessSpheresFree MarketTheftNationalityCoercionPlunderOrganizationalGoods And ServicesFair PlayPedigreeProtectionismClearance Author:Leonard Read
“There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.” PeopleWholeOpportunityJusticeFateHarm Author:Will Wilkinson
“The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative effects of others' actions. It is like a set of invisible mirrors that surround individuals, households or firms, reflecting back on them the consequences of their acts. The industrious will reap the benefits of their industry; the frugal the consequences of their frugality; the improvident and the profligate likewise. They receive their due, which is to say they experience justice as a matter of routine.” PeopleMatterActionIndividualJusticeEffectsIndustryBlessingBenefitsConsequenceNegativeMirrorsPropertyDuesInvisibleFirmSurroundRoutineHouseholdReflectingReapPrivate PropertyFrugalityIndustriousFrugalReflecting Back Author:Tom Bethell
“Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in a nominee to replace Justice David Souter. He wants 'someone who understands justice is not just about some abstract legal theory,' he said, but someone who has 'empathy.' In other words, judges should decide cases so that the right people win, not according to the rule of law.” PeopleWantShouldSaidLawUsedWinningJusticeAttitudeCasesJudgingTheoryEmpathyAbstractRule Of Law Author:Michael Barone
“As the leader of a country, you are not free to enjoy the luxury of such feelings. The Afghan people want peace, which requires persistence. We are determined to defend our country, and the whole region and the entire world understands the justice of our cause and the principled way in which we have engaged in it.” PeopleWorldWayWantCountryWholeFeelingsCausesEnjoyJusticeLeaderDeterminedOur CountryLuxuryPersistenceEngagedRegionsAfghanPrincipled Author:Ashraf Ghani
“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.” PeopleHeartChildrenHas BeensProblemSchoolLastsPassionJusticeForgetCommonLibertyGoneTroubleHonestTomorrowSpeechNewsOrdinaryComplexesLegsPreservesEggsPoetry IsClingingBad NewsOutspokenCadenceOpaqueFryingTruth And JusticeCommon LifeHashBuoys Author:Garrison Keillor
“I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.” PeopleMenCountryGovernmentActionAmericaJusticeCommonResponsibilityCreativeLandSecurityDesignAreasOriginalsProsperitySocialismWelfareDestructiveProductiveDeparted Author:Leonard Read
“Well, you know, I do think in the larger span of things, I owe it all to Star Trek, because Star Trek has given me this pop icon status if you will, and one of the gifts have been this megaphone I have which amplifies my voice and I can reach people. And I do think the movement for equality for LGBT Americans is in the same context of all of the great American movements, you know, the basic fundamental ideals of this country of justice and equality.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWellsHas BeensI CanCountryGivenStarsVoiceJusticeMovementIdealsFundamentalsPopsLgbtIconsGreat AmericanEquality And JusticeAmplify Author:George Takei
“Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance” PeopleCommunityJusticeCrimeSolutionsVictimObligationReconciliationViolationOffendersReassuranceMake Things Right Author:Howard Zehr
“There's no way you are going to get rid of the Second Amendment, there's no way you're going to get rid of the First Amendment, and people have to understand how important this is. But I think when they see more and more killings, we have to figure out, of course what we are going to do about it. And I don't think the criminal justice system has an answer.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsImportantCoursesJusticeAnswersFiguresKillingCriminalsAmendmentsFirst AmendmentSecond AmendmentJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System Author:Chuck Todd
“We both [with Suzanne Collins ] felt strongly that you wouldn't want to age up the characters, no matter the age of the actors playing the roles. They should be playing the age that they are in the [Hunger Games] books. It would let people off the hook, if you said, "Well, instead of 12 to 18, why don't you make them 18 to 25 or 16 to 21?" If you don't stay true to the horror of the fact that they are 12 to 18, you're not doing justice to the book.” PeopleIfsWantShouldWellsSaidBookMatterCharacterFactsAgeActorsGamesFeltJusticeRolesHorrorHungerHookStay TrueHunger Games BookGame Book Author:Nina Jacobson
“I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.” PeopleWantNeedsFeelsHeartFeelingsJusticeCry Author:Ziggy Marley
“Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.” PeopleIfsMenJusticeCitiesGroupsCriminalsScalesKingdomsTitlesAcquireRemoveDividedTerritoryCaptureConventionsGangPlunderLarge ScaleVillainy Author:Saint Augustine
“Somewhere within the concept of justice, the worst of the guilty must always be removed. I cannot divorce this, not completely. The people must have justice and so I want to reinstate and enshrine the blessed and holy guillotine!” PeopleWantJusticeWorstHolyConceptsBlessedDivorceGuiltyGuillotine Author:Roseanne Barr
“There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color...We must fight back.” PeopleMenBelieveChildrenYoungFightingJusticePovertyGrowingColorDignityHarderDiedPoliceYoung ManHeelsWornReservedCustody Author:Elizabeth Warren
“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.” PeopleWantMeanJusticePoliceShootingProtestPolice BrutalityBrutalityUnarmed Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system." I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.” PeopleGivingEndsJusticeStreetsPleaseDemandWestOccupationPakistanIsraeliDemonstrationGazaClinicSewageSaying PleaseIsraeli OccupationSign Sayings Author:Robert Fisk
“When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingFeelsYearsCountryHardUseTermJusticeTalkingVisionRichDangerGiving UpHundredChinaDevelopingFuelFossilsMarginsGet RichFossil FuelDeveloping CountriesInvulnerability Author:Bill McKibben
“Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.” PeopleKnowsJusticeInnocentJustice System Author:Gerald Kogan
“A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?” PeopleIfsLostPresidentJusticeCasesSupportSpecialColorBrokenCitizensPoliceCriminalsOfficersPortionsCiviliansPolice OfficerJustice SystemAmerican CitizensCriminal JusticeProsecutorCriminal Justice SystemLost Confidence Author:Russell Simmons
“While our heart for social justice grows out from the gospel, social justice by itself will not communicate the gospel. We need gospel proclamation, for as much as people may see our good deeds, they cannot hear the good news unless we tell them. Social justice, though valuable as an expression of Christian love, should, especially as a churchwide endeavor, serve the goal of gospel proclamation.” PeopleNeedsShouldHeartMayChristianSocialGrowsGoalJusticeExpressionNewsSocial JusticeCommunicateDeedsValuableEndeavorGood NewsGood DeedsProclamationChristian Love Author:Darrin Patrick
“In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.” PeopleYearsTwoCountryLastsWealthJusticeViewsMillionsSawsPeriodsIncreaseBottomBillionsTwo Years Author:Bernie Sanders
“History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.” PeopleHas BeensJusticeLogicTerrorIdeologyLiberationExclusionDowntrodden Author:Tariq Ramadan
“In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?” PeopleFeelsYearsFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoMomentsBigsYoungBlackPresidentJusticeCitiesKeysPoliceElectionCourtChiefsAfrican AmericanLeagueDepartmentVotersBoastAttorneyMayorsBig CitiesProsecutorReelection Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.” PeopleThreeBlackBornJusticeCenturyColorBabyOughtPrisonMalesReportsJailAstonishingBlack MalesBaby Born Author:Bryan Stevenson
“I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is the daughter of enslaved people and who has found a way to be hopeful and create love and value justice and seek peace is a remarkable person.” PeopleWayPersonsValuesFoundJusticeUniqueDaughterDramaticHopefulRemarkableGrandmotherMy GrandmotherAmazing Person Author:Bryan Stevenson
“What's really interesting, though, is that some people in the Messirya are starting to see Darfuri rebels - so non-Arab, [from the] Justice and Equality Movement - have moved over into Southern Kordofan, which is supposed to be a Messirya stronghold, and started recruiting Messirya to go and fight against the Khartoum government in Darfur. Just another example of how everything in Sudan is interlinked.” PeopleGovernmentFightingJusticeInterestingExampleMovementMovedStartingSupposed To BeSouthernRebelReally InterestingEquality And JusticeSudanStrongholdsDarfur Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.” PeopleIfsKnowsJusticeCitiesSupportEconomicParticularLettersNativeSundayMarchChicagoPastorHousingMartyrCardinalsJustinParishEconomic Justice Author:Sara Paretsky
“King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true.” PeopleWorldTryingWellsSaidHoursJusticeSleepBreakMiddleSecurityThis WorldDependsKingsUnderstoodThreatInjusticeProsperityEastEnjoyedWakingDedicatedMiddle EastHusseinLutherJordanBreak ThroughImpasseInjustice Anywhere Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because the greatest suffering among the people at the moment is caused by lack of justice and lack of the rule of law.” PeopleMomentsLawSufferingJusticeQualityEssentialsFrameworkQuality Of LifeRule Of LawInstituteBurma Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“I still oppose "Visit Myanmar Year," and I would ask tourists to stay away. Burma is not going to run away. They should come back to Burma at a time when it is a democratic society where people are secure - where there is justice, where there is rule of law. They'll have a much better time. And they can travel around Burma with a clear conscience.” PeopleShouldYearsStillsRunningLawAsksJusticeClearConscienceDemocraticSecureRunning AwayRule Of LawTouristsDemocratic SocietyBurmaClear Conscience Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansSometimesBigsRememberFeltProcessJusticeIssuesRightsHe ManHusbandHuman RightsChiefsGovernorsEleanorImpassionedChief JusticeInternment Author:William A. Rusher
“I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting.” PeopleThinkingMindHeartLongHappensMovingFightingProcessJusticeResultsRaceFeetInfluenceLimitsThings HappenAgendasHeart And MindArenaEleanorRacial Justice Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.” PeopleSaidCountryDreamHouseSpeakSocialJusticeSilenceCasesSeeingExampleDirectorsNewsSocial JusticeSilentMeritAgencyOfficialsInterviewsOnlineScarePublishingPublishersGallerySpeaks OutComplacentFree CountryOutreachPublishing House Author:Leila Fadel
“Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that a lot of young people are having open dialogue and honest conversations about social justice and human rights.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansReasonLastsYoungSocialJusticeRightsProgressHonestConversationSocial JusticeHuman RightsEightDialogueYoutube Author:Tyler Oakley
“I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, dealing with the fact that we have more people in jail, shamefully, than any other country on Earth, that I am against the death penalty, Secretary Clinton is not, I think, as people become familiar with my ideas, we are going to do better and better.” PeopleThinkingIdeasCountryFactsEarthCommunityHoursJusticeRecordsEconomicsClintonCriminalsFamiliarAfrican AmericanAgendasJailOther CountriesSecretaryPenaltiesMinimumDeath PenaltyMinimum WageCriminal JusticeAgainst Death Penalty Author:Bernie Sanders
“Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.” PeopleDoeI CanCan DoJusticeFiguresManagersHuntsAssistantsRigor Author:Joan Baez
“I have to conclude, oh, the best people are all somebody other than my own race. So that's difficult. How do we interpret the Bible? Should we stress things like justice and that God is somebody who cares about equality of all people? Or is he a God of love and a God who's there to give me an afterlife?” PeopleGivingShouldCareDifficultJusticeMy OwnRaceGive MeStressAfterlifeWho Cares Author:Michael Emerson
“Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.” PeopleChristianCoursesJusticePoorKingsSoldierCommittedChaptersMatthew Author:Cornel West
“If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.” PeopleIfsHardSocialSidesBlackJusticeSocial JusticeBlack People Author:Neal Brennan
“Our planet has run out of patience. So has our sense of justice. It is time to step it up - and up - and up - until we reach the only goal that really matters: peace among people and peace between people and nature.” PeopleMatterRunningTimeGoalJusticeStepsPlanetsBe PatientOur Planet Author:Ross Gelbspan
“Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!” PeopleMeanLittlesMatterUseDesireTurnsJusticeVirtueEconomicMaterialsToolsDifficultySolvePityEnlightenedTaoismGoodsWorldlyDiligenceFrugalityStinginess Author:Zicheng Hong
“When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped people, inspire them with justice. Then the whole world enters your forge.” PeopleWorldWholeMovingJusticeInspireViolentWhole WorldTaoismSincerityHonest PeopleGentility Author:Zicheng Hong
“I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values.” PeopleShouldMeanStillsIdeasUsedValuesSpeakSocialInterestJusticePrinciplesDemocracyUnderstoodSocial JusticeProfitCommittedRecognitionSocialistAdvancement Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.” PeopleTryingYearsLooksTwoBigsLastsThreeJusticeWhiteForgetMillionsFoolLowsKillingLowestFeedingKill MeLynchingEquality And JusticeDepriving Author:Muhammad Ali
“The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights.” PeopleGivingChristianFormFightingThreeSidesChurchJusticeStruggleCenturyDevelopmentGayCatholicBroke20th CenturySegregationProtestantsTurning PointsChristian Church Author:John Shelby Spong
“In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians because they hated the chosen people. Then a God of love finally appears in the Book of Hosea, about the 8th century. A God of justice appears in the Book of Amos in the late 8th century or early 7th century.” PeopleBookIdeasJusticeSinCenturyDevelopmentLateKillingScriptureChosenHated Author:John Shelby Spong
“It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight of the people for economic justice. That's why it was so interesting to find myself back with Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], this new breed of nuns who were making a difference in the community.” PeopleMenCountrySeemsAmericaFightingCommunityDifferencesChurchJusticeInterestingEconomicWalkingSouthConnectedMaking A DifferenceRelevanceNunDead ManSouth AmericaHelenEconomic JusticeCentral America Author:Susan Sarandon