Urban League Quotes

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

Too many things that happen in this country give the impression that our system is blind in the right eye.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

You can't just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.