Robert Shapiro Quotes

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs....In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward inequalirty or discrimination. It is merely a timely warning which is particularly necessary because we shall have a very large Arab minority. I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs, just as the Jewish people at large will be judged by what we do or fail to do in this state where we have been given such a wonderful opportunity after thousands of years of wandering and suffering.

Big guy and little guy, it should make no difference. The rule of law demands neutrality.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling.

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

Political views in the hiring of career attorneys and staff should not be used. If I am asked to do that, I will not allow it.

It's equal opportunity for all, and we don't play favourites.

Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind.

One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals' idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or physical attributes.

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

I believe a person regardless of race should get the job.

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.