Kapil Sibal Quotes

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law

Much of the civil rights work of this century will entail championing digital rights.

The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – and listens to their testimony.

It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than our humblest citizen, so that we can end the double standard of justice in America.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

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

There is no “equality before the law” possible but between men economically free.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

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 !

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

I believe that interconnectivity is a human right.

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

We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.