Joaquim Barbosa Quotes

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

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.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

And Justice for Some

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

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

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.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

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

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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

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

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

White folks don't want peace; they want quiet. The price you pay for peace is justice.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

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

All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

… injustice breeds injustice

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.