Patrick Leahy Quotes

They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes'...We need change now. We demand actions now.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

America's insistent demand in the twentieth century is for social justice.

Government should not deny to any of its citizens that which it gives to other citizens.

Justice belongs to the people!

It is not force or fear, but belief in the inherent equality of man induces me to support this legislation.

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

I believe in equal rights for all people.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

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

We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

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

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.

There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.

The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

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.

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

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.

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.