Justice Quotes
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But life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
John F. Kennedy
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I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.
Tony Kushner
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
Octavio Paz
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Tammy Duckworth
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
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If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
Confucius
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
Kate McKinnon
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The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
Bryant H. McGill
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to say it's a dream come true doesn't do it justice, because I've never dreamed this big. The film and play stand side by side -- you get the advantage of more intimacy in the film's close-ups, and the advantage of live rock onstage.
Anthony Rapp
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The Justice Department is staunchly committed to ensuring that all Americans are treated in a fair and just manner.
Janet Reno
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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
Earl Warren
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato
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Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.
Van Jones
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Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
Majora Carter
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A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts
Al-Farabi
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I consider myself a social justice person.
Jon Ronson
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
Patricia Highsmith
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For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
Jennifer Chiaverini
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History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
Tariq Ramadan
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
George Bernard Shaw
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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.
Abe Fortas
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
William Shakespeare