Justice Quotes
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Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.
Betsy Hodges
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
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I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.
James Forman, Jr.
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
Heraclitus
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I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.
Joaquim Barbosa
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Marian Wright Edelman
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon
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I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.
David Zucker
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...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.
Alexander Berkman
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
Thomas More
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I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.
Van Jones
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.
Madeleine Albright
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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.
Plato
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I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.
John Gregory Dunne
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It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.
Martha Griffiths
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Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
Andrew Cohen
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Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.
Rowan Williams
