Shannon Miller Quotes

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another.

You can't just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

The law is cruel.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

There are reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just.

Racial discrimination is wrong and racial preference is just as wrong.

Effective action is always unjust.

Equality is a monster.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

The law should be no respecter of persons but should treat all alike, save where dissimilarity of treatment is required by positive reasons, either of justice or of policy.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

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

And Justice for Some

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

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

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

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

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

I want to make things equal.