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• Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Majority, Development, Earth

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• Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Hatred, Political

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• If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Heart, People

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

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• What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Educational, Fighting, Race

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• Compassion is no substitute for justice.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Compassion, Substitutes, Owners

  "Undeniable Truth #35" in Limbaugh's radio show, February 18, 1994.

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• Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

  John Milton

  May, Mercy, Thee

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, John Evans (1799). “Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.”, p.283

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• We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Winning, Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

  Pope Gregory VII

  Love, Hated, Exile

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

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Politics, World, Duty

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• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Liberty, Safe

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

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• It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

  Edmund Burke

  Drawing, Ideas, People

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.201, Transaction Publishers

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• The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Suffering, Foundation, Public Good

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• Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Peace, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.

  Jessie Sampter

  Running, Block, Eye

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• It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

  Edmund Burke

  Doctors, Law, Divinity

  Edmund Burke, Ian Harris (1993). “Pre-Revolutionary Writings”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, Gambling, People

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• The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Spiritual, War, Knowledge

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• Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.

  Medea Benjamin

  Teamwork, Positivity, Opportunity

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• Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Peace, People

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• History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

  Seamus Heaney

  Once In A Lifetime, Sides, Wave

  "Doubletake" l. 13 (1990)

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• You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Women, Simple, Quality

  John Peter Altgeld (1890). “Live Questions: Including Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims”

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• Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

  Norman Borlaug

  Guiding Principles, Gmos, Desire

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

  Norman Borlaug

  Essentials, Adequate, Food Banks

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Justice from Love, and Love from Justice

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Love, And Love

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