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The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

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The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from th...more

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The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its sm...more

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I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the i...more

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Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to...more

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I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. I...more

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Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often...more

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You can't be neutral on a moving train.

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There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their m...more