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It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Marian Wright Edelman

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian

Dennis Wholey

Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

Clarence Darrow

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Gloria Steinem

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Winston Churchill

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.

Barbara Strickland

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Friedrich Von Schiller

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness

Henri-FrÈdÈric Amiel

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King Jr

Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

Spinoza

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

Alex Carey

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

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

Benjamin Jowett

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Jimmy Carter

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Marian Wright Edelman

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

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