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• That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression; and all history shews how efficacious is its intercession for redress of grievances and re-establishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator

  Thomas Jefferson

  Powerful, Rights, Giving

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• In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of "overpermiticisation" - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

  Naomi Wolf

  Government, America, Requirements

  "Naomi Wolf: how I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.

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• People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Airports, Rights

  "Jesse Ventura No Longer Flies, Thanks To Transportation Security Administration" By Andrea Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2012.

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• By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Clerks, Stories

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• The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.

  Trey Gowdy

  Badass, Bad Ass, Government

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• Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.

  Paul Hawken

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Humanity

  Paul Hawken's Commencement Address to the Class of 2009, www.commondreams.org. May 3, 2009.

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• That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we are to look for it in the wrong places, how it does not reveal itself until it is beyond redress, how vainly we search for it around us and find too late that is has occurred within us.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Change, Morning

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.

  William Finnegan

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Nice, Fall

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

  William O. Douglas

  Doe, Tactics, Today

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. It's just that I never envisioned it taking the form of thousands of people screaming 'you asshole!' at me.

  Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

  Government, People, Political

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• It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

  Jay Sekulow

  Men, Evil, Might

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• I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Military, Believe, Thinking

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Children, School

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• As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What separates a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a malevolent one, however, is whether one can candidly admit to ones mistakes and take bold steps to redress them.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Mistake, Fall, Views

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• The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Government, People, Television

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

  Lew Wallace

  Gratitude, Fighting, Remembrance

  Lew Wallace (2010). “Ben-Hur: A Story of the Christ”, p.274, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Opportunity, Yield

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.318, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Government, Israel, Years

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• The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.

  James Madison

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Common

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• America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.

  George Will

  Baseball, Spring, Florida

  "Reform in Baseball as In Life" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. April 2, 2001.

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• It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Law, Justice

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• Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Justice, Heaven, Humans

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• And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

  William Blackstone

  Kings, Rights, Self

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the First Article's assurance.

  Wiley Blount Rutledge

  Peace, Rights, People

  "Thomas v. Collins, 323 U.S. 516". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 8, 1945.

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