Tommy Makem Quotes
The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
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Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
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I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.
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At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
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Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
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The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.
