Jack Kevorkian Quotes

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

Abolish lynching

I would lynch him.

If a white man says, "give me liberty or give me death" in any country, white men all over the world stand up and applaud. But if a black man says the same thing--the exact same words--he is created like a dangerous criminal.

Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application.

One of the main points everywhere in my life is fairness. Coming from South Africa and being treated unfairly all your life because of your skin colour, that's been a huge point.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination is a disease.

Injustice can never be stood for.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.