Alan Dershowitz Quotes

Justice belongs to the people!

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because the greatest suffering among the people at the moment is caused by lack of justice and lack of the rule of law.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

The rights of the lowliest criminal are not his alone. They belong to us all.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.

I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.