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Justice |
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| "Tonight, we are a country awakened to
danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger
and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or
bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done." |
| -- George W. Bush, US President |
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| “Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial
injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.”
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| -- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| "Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of
it to affairs." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth
and justice." |
| -- Demosthenes |
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| "Sir, I say that justice is truth in action." |
| -- Benjamin "Dizzy"
Disraeli (1804-81), [First Earl of Beaconsfield] British politician |
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| "All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason
and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest
good will exert upon events in the political field." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "Without justice courage is weak." |
| -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90),
American public official, writer, scientist |
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| "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose
begins." |
| -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(1841-1935), US Supreme Court Justice |
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| "Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." |
| -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929-68), African-American reverend, civil rights leader |
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| "Military justice is to justice what military music is to
music." |
| -- Groucho Marx
(1890-1977), American comedian, actor |
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| "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but
man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." |
| -- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971),
American theologian |
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| "Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while
human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice
than they are compelled to do by their situation." |
| -- Thucyclides |
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| "Judging from the main portion of the history of
the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy." |
| -- Walt Whitman (1819-92),
American poet |
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| "A
jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better
lawyer." |
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--
Robert Frost |
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| "I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice." |
| -- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) |
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"This
man, Mr. Bush, stands accused of the supreme crime against himself
and mankind. He is singularly charged with the heinous crime of
conspiring to make appearance into reality, of insulating himself
from humanity in favor of ambition, of negating life in favor of
dogma, of preferring law to justice, and of preferring abstract
thought to what his own heart tells him is true." |
| --
Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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| "Justice
delayed is justice denied." |
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--
William Gladstone |
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| "Rigid justice is the greatest
injustice." |
| -- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1608-61), English
clergyman |
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| "When
you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve
people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." |
| -- Norm Crosby |
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| "Justice is a certain
rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in
circumstances confronting him." |
| -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), Italian
Dominican monk, theologian, philosopher |
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| "Man's capacity for justice makes
democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes
democracy necessary." |
| -- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), American
theologian |
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| "Judging from the main portion of the
history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy." |
| -- Walt Whitman (1819-92), American poet |
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| "For most men the love of justice is only
the fear of suffering injustice." |
| -- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80),
French writer |
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| "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your
belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the
world, the master calls a butterfly." |
| -- Richard David Bach (b. 1936),
American author |
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| "The triumph of justice is the only
peace." |
| -- Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-99), American
politician |
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| "Comedy is allied to justice." |
| -- Aristophenes (448?-388? BC),
Athenian playwright |
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| "One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty
another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "In no
sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to
anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is
unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to
arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality
expressing the highest respect for law." |
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--
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| "It is from numberless diverse acts of
courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man
stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or
strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy
and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the
mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." |
| -- Robert F. Kennedy, American statesman |
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