Al Sharpton Quotes

There is a necessity for police offers to control themselves as well as the people in the streets... Our police are there to help people, not to hurt people.

America is a dirty rag if it will not protect all of its citizens.

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

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.

Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

They got the judges / They got the lawyers / They got the jury rolls / They got the law / They don’t come by ones. / They got the sheriffs / They got the deputies / They don’t come by twos. / They got the shotguns / They got the rope / We git the justice / In the end / And they come by tens.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for a breach is more so.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

If a king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those deserving to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker like fish on a spit.

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.