Justice Quotes - Page 27

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Play, Frustrated, Progress

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• The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Cost, Invaders, Paid

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• The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

  Roger Waters

  Rights, Criminals, United States

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• Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Charity, Mercy, Drowning

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• But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

  Rudolf Otto

  Sweet, Lying, Smell

  Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.73, Walter de Gruyter

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• While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.

  Nancy Keenan

  Years, Giving, Looks

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• Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

  Dean Koontz

  Revenge, Long, People

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Deeply Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.263, Bantam

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• The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Heart, Comforting, Trying

  "LatinoBuzz: Interview with Q’orianka Kilcher". Interview with Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. February 6, 2013.

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• We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark

  Strong, Feelings, Desire

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark (2011). “The Ox-Bow Incident”, p.30, Modern Library

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• One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

  Eric Schlosser

  Grief, Reality, Murder Victims

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• What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Unique, Simple, Needs

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• I wield my spear in the name of justice!

  Zhao Yun

  Names, Spears

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• There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

  Leon Trotsky

  Fighting, Practice, Individual

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• It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

  Serj Tankian

  Mean, Responsibility, Artist

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• The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Thinking, Talking, Alarms

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• I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

  David Liss

  League, Fans, Bigs

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• One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

  Robert Bly

  Children, Rap, Men

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• God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Accompany Us, Giving, Sides

  "Joni Eareckson Tada on Wilberforce Award, 'Better Off Dead Than Disabled' Mentality". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Compassion, Color

  Speech the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, April 5, 1968.

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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

  Different, Prejudice, World

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• What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, Character, Men

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.997, Graphic Arts Books

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• Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

  Emily Saliers

  Responsibility, Fighting, Artist

  "An Interview with the Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers". Interview with Marissa Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

  Howard Zehr

  Art, Responsibility, College

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• The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  People, Demand, Firsts

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• Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

  Janet Robertson

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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