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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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I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substit...

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We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We h...

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

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man...

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He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us...

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

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...

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If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter sc...

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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for ...

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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confi...

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Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgmen...

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...I do not think that it is right for a man to appeal to the jury or to get himself acquitted by do...

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Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is on...

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Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permit...

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We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented...

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I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine som...

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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: ...

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

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SophoclesThe Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded...

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SophoclesThe Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public chariti...

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The Church really does not know what [peace and justice] mean apart from the life and death of Jesus...

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Stanley HauerwasResident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in t...

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But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the ...

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Steven EriksonThe Crippled God

The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and ...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are autho...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature