Richard Nixon Quotes

Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse.

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.

The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Don’t play with us. If you’re not going to give us justice, let us go so that we may help ourselves….We can’t want for benevolent white people to give us handouts.

In the right to vote … Justice should never be too expensive. Justice should never be too slow. Justice should never depend on an army of lawyers sweeping in to help, and that is the situation we have now. We are dependent on the ability to find help whenever we can.

Legal aid is crucial in ensuring those truly guilty of crimes are convicted after due process, and those innocent are able to clear their names, by ensuring that access to legal representation is available for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.

While service in the Department of Justice is itself one of the highest forms of public service, the Department further strides to increase access to justice for all and to strengthen our communities.

Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based on their type, not their merit; a high financial threshold for the receipt of legal aid in other cases; and a failure to deliver a safety net for vulnerable individuals by the exceptional funding arrangements.

It is one of the most beautiful things about our country that just one individual, so long as he or she has the law on their side, can take on the most powerful institutions or people in the land and win.

For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.

No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him or her.

The coming decade belongs to the right of the poor and the marginalised. The BJP is very clear on that.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.