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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.
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~ 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
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~ Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
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~ 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.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~
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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.
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~ Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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~ 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.
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~ 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.
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~ What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply. ~
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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. ~
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The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
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