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The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violenc...

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What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism fo...

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And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when...

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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justic...

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires...

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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our p...

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We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will ...

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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my sit...

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Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christin...

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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our p...

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I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess t...

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Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered a...

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[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever ...

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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or u...

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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impuni...

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

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Massad AyoobIn the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confus...

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Matthew HenryMatthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in li...

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We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all...

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that...

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Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; ...

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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...

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Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško čovjeku ako su mu m...

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An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use it...

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Michael IgnatieffThe Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on ...

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So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord,...

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Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let yo...

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Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the p...

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Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

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True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the a...

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Our confidence in the future restorative justice of God may even give us confidence to do justice ou...

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N.T. WrightThe Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense for...

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Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarcha...

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Fat Charlie had had no real liking for the police, but until now, he had still managed to cling to a...

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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your pa...

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

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THERE IS NO JUSTICE" said Death "JUST ME

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you...

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You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. H...

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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all ...

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice...

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Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation.""What was it, target practice? Chinese ...

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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a a shame in a woman to be an infamy ...

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Oscar WildeA Woman of No Importance

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice.

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignida...

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Pablo NerudaToward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, a...

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But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to m...

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A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I pers...

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I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for think...

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If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight b...

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Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to...

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Peter SingerThe Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustic...

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As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the ...

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[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more ...

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Pierre-Simon LaplaceExposition du système du monde

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and ...

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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me a...

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...in the running of cities, virtually nothing is done by anyone that is conducive to political heal...

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Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't...

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[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to ...

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[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to ...

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We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and n...

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A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justic...

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Pope Benedict XVIGod Is Love: Deus Caritas Est

The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criteri...

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Pope Benedict XVISaved in Hope: Spe Salvi

Fairness is what justice really is.

If you want peace work for justice.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Ma...

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spiri...

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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democr...

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Reinhold NiebuhrThe Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disa...

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The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with y...

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Robert A. HeinleinCitizen of the Galaxy

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...

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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must c...

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Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthri...

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