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I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also t...

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposit...

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...

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Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do m...

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Baruch SpinozaTheological-Political Treatise

Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate...

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Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, ...

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Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-bein...

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Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do...

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There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upho...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster an...

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Bell hooksFeminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus ...

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Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the...

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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always ...

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It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

Man's inclination to justice makes democracy possible; but man's capacity for injustice makes it nec...

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Bernard CrickDemocracy: A Very Short Introduction

Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand...

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Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents al...

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The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer re...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything ...

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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever i...

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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit...

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Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into...

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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mo...

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It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out wit...

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Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this ide...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, ...

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An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

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Justice shall be mixed with mercy. You shall not always be an Ass.

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C. S. LewisThe Horse and His Boy

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best resu...

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Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up ...

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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the trues...

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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for thei...

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There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant ...

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People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality...

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And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love somethi...

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You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There ar...

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Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council...

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That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ir...

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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Si...

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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

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Clarence DarrowThe Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has k...

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To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe ...

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Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can se...

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To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

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Cornel WestDemocracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must acce...

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If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and...

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D. H. LawrenceStudies in Classic American Literature

Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Gui...

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When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titl...

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Daniel DefoeThe True-Born Englishman: A Satyr

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings...

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Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consume...

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David EaglemanSum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

I say this because as an older man I am prone to ponder matters in the light of death in a way that ...

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What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even d...

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If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We ne...

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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who consider...

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If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive ...

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God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up.

justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all ...

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Don MarquisArchyology : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel

If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offic...

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Wi...

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can fin...

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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...

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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to...

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Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would h...

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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater num...

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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when w...

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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fa...

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He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some prid...

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