John McDonnell Quotes

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

And Justice for Some

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

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

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

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

… injustice breeds injustice

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

I don't like being treated differently.

Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.