Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of…

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the…

— Edward Kennedy

Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society.…

— Edward Kennedy

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans…

— Frank Herbert

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

— Nelson Mandela

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors…

— Robert Toombs

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

— Frederick Douglass

“He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.”

— Rev. B. Margoliouth

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its…

— John Quincy Adams

Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

— William Shakespeare

D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites…

— Malorie Blackman

They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that…

— Leonard Peltier

The real debate is we've had an activist court, and the American people don't want an activist court. And the real fear from those…

— Tom Coburn

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to homeso close and so small that they cannot be seen on…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

On the one hand, you don't want to disrupt the nation with what might look like a vindictive prosecution, even though it might not…

— Rudy Giuliani

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

— Thomas Sowell