Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans. ”

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. ”

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered. ”

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. ”

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. ”

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. ”

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? ”

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.' ”

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ”

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear. ”