Justice

The law is a powerful thing — it has the ability to hold everybody accountable to it, and that includes the president of the United States.

She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.

Selma is now because the struggle for justice is right now.

Forget the laws on human rights. If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I'd kill you.

I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill.

It seems that in America we haven’t so much ended racial caste, but simply redesigned it.

I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.

No reasonable prosecutor would bring this case.

I’m free and I’m unbound and there are no shackles on me now.

To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation: we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all, and to fight for equal rights for women in America.

The court looks the other way as yet another federal district judge casts aside state laws without making any effort to preserve the status quo pending the court’s resolution of a constitutional question it left open in United States v. Windsor…This acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the court’s intended resolution of that question.

The cover-up can be worse than the crime, though in this case there may be no underlying crime.