Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

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"Equality under law requires that marriage rights extend to all citizens equally."
Obergefell v. Hodges
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"We are all responsible for each other."
Larry Kramer
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"We deserve dignity and respect."
Larry Kramer
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"Apathy is complicity."
Larry Kramer
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"Silence enables injustice."
Larry Kramer
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"We deserve to be safe."
Larry Kramer
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"We must demand accountability."
Larry Kramer
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"The fight for justice never ends."
Larry Kramer
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"Fighting for your rights is not about you alone; it's about everyone who comes after."
Edith Windsor
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"Equality means everyone deserves the same legal protections, regardless of who they love."
Edith Windsor
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"The law must protect the vulnerable, not reinforce their vulnerability."
Edith Windsor
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"Marriage equality is not a special right; it is a fundamental one."
Edith Windsor
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"Tax laws should not weaponize grief; they should recognize love."
Edith Windsor
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"The law is only just if it applies the same standard to all people."
Edith Windsor
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"The right to marry is the right to be counted as fully human in the eyes of the law."
Edith Windsor
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"Marriage equality is not about special treatment; it is about equal treatment."
Edith Windsor
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"We cannot have true equality until all people can marry whom they choose."
Edith Windsor
"We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny."
Bayard Rustin
"I think we make a terrible mistake to suppose that the civil rights movement was just a black phenomenon."
Bayard Rustin
"Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as it is to us, we will keep losing black men."
Bayard Rustin
"Any Negro who is thinking about this problem cannot help but realize that we cannot seek to solve the problem of racial discrimination by creating another form of discrimination."
Bayard Rustin
"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was legal and constitutional."
Bayard Rustin
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
Bayard Rustin
"We are challenging those who practice segregation."
Bayard Rustin
"We cannot afford to be complacent about injustice anywhere."
Bayard Rustin
"I believe that we must make a total commitment to human rights."
Bayard Rustin
"The burden of integration is placed on the black man, but the burden should be on the white man."
Bayard Rustin
"The problem is that we live in an unjust society."
Bayard Rustin
"We are not just fighting for civil rights; we are fighting for human rights."
Bayard Rustin
"I think it is important that we recognize the interconnectedness of all struggles for justice."
Bayard Rustin