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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
~ Albert Einstein
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
~ Malcolm X
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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.
~ Frederick Douglass
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
~ Aristotle
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
~ Maya Angelou
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
~ Winston Churchill
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
~ Malcolm X
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
~ Eliot Spitzer
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
~ Haile Selassie
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
~ Pope John Paul II
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
~ Samuel Johnson
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
~ Ban Ki-moon
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
~ Charles Dickens
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I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.
~ Q'orianka Kilcher
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Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
~ Bobby Seale
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Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
~ Jessica Valenti
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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~ Frank Serpico
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.
~ Deepak Chopra
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
~ Dalai Lama
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
~ D. H. Lawrence
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
~ Thomas Paine
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The more laws, the less justice.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
~ Helen Keller
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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