Stephen B. Bright Quotes

Justice in this country is an insurance policy. It’s not something that we’re supposed to get sometimes.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

He made you king to do justice and righteousness.

If there is to be justice in the world, American must create it.

Justice belongs to the people!

The classical case is that of the starving man who steals a loaf of bread. That he should be allowed to go free is understandable enough; but it is less understandable that 'society's' obligation not to let him starve should devolve upon one baker chosen at random and not on society as a whole.

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

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

The Hebrew word “tzedakah” … is translated as “charity” but … comes from the same root as the word for “justice”.

Charity and philanthropy are not justice.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

Delay in justice is injustice.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.