Top 1200 Justice Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.

It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

In reality it's pretty obvious that all the citizens of Israel have total civil equality.

Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

Any government I lead will continue with the equality of gay and lesbian people.

Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

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.

When we talk about pay equality, I think we're misunderstanding where the problem lies.

It's detrimental not to support marriage equality, even just on a financial level.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Bumble is about equality. We are reverse-engineering traditional societal norms.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.

Brothers and sisters, white people will come in to chastise us. But since we are no longer forsaken, and are the people of God, God will answer whatever they do of evil to us. I'm warning the government and I am warning General James Mattis, and all those who would kill us outside of the law of justice, that the God of justice will pay you back in full.

The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation.

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.

Our locker room is so positive. We are all focused on the same objectives, and that's equality for women.

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. Hey never have and never will... Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace.

My priority is inclusion and justice. We need a system of justice that is applied across the board. That is what this country is striving for. We've suffered from a variety of exclusions. In the past, I compared our situation to a person with scissors who first cut the sleeve, then the fingers, then our body politic to pieces. My job is to stitch the wounds together. We need an agenda of inclusion: the youth, the women, the poor feel an enormous sense of exclusion.

It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.

Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.