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Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.”[ Live 8 Concert, Mary...

—Nelson Mandela

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First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What...

—Michael J. Sandel

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The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

—Stella Young

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Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one’s ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone – the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there’s no fairness on earth.

—Svetlana Alexievich

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the importance of who is confirmed to succeed Chief Justice Rehnquist cannot be overstated.

—Ralph Neas

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Justice? — You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

—William Gaddis

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Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won’t come...

—Ronald Reagan

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To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son’s suffering? But another sound can be heard: the...

—Philip Yancey

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I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

—Ross Macdonald

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The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable…. It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures...

—Wendell Berry

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But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the stone. ‘I have had,’ the Jaghut roared, and into the air she went again,...

—Steven Erikson

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A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.

—Auliq Ice

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The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

—Hebrew Proverbs

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The pain of humanity’s most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.

—Bryant McGill

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Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value.If all men are equal, then all men are of...

—B.R. Ambedkar

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…Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keeping peace, she thought. It hadn’t begun that way, was nothing she’d planned, but now she saw that’s how it...

—Alan Heathcock

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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a...

—Aristotle

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You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one...

—Christopher Hitchens

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Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

—Hunter S.

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If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths – we may be...

—Hélder C

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

—Francis Bacon

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I say this because as an older man I am prone to ponder matters in the light of death in a way that you are not. I am like a traveler from Mars who looks...

—David Guterson

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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

—D.H. Lawrence

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Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear what you KNOW!

—Faith Brashear

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Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we’re paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.”Who?’ Aunt Alexandra never knew she was echoing her twelve-year-old nephew.’The...

—Harper Lee

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What I have told you is not completely true. You should beware, for often in this story, my words will be spoken out of bitterness, out of hate. The scream of the poor is not...

—Erik Christian

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We preserve and protect our system of justice best when we accept its judgments that we disagree with most,

—Joe Lieberman

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Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

—Kevin DeYoung

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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

—John Rawls

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The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.

—Marty Rubin

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Jedi do not fight for peace. That’s only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the...

—Matthew Woodring

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Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško čovjeku ako su mu mjera nebo i zemlja.

—Meša Selimović

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Our confidence in the future restorative justice of God may even give us confidence to do justice ourselves in the present. We are called then, to stretch out the arms of our minds and hearts...

—N.T. Wright

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First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention away from concrete realities. Idealizations tend to be partial and distorting,...

—José Medina

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States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.

—Michael Crapo

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Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. – John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II

—John Galsworthy

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The decrease in the number of killings doesn’t make any difference if the society has to sleep with the ghosts of the old devil.

—Nilantha Ilangamuwa

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Our criminal justice system is not working as it should when innocent people are convicted of serious crimes and then spend decades — or have even reached the end of death row — before the...

—Patrick Leahy

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All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we’re doing something that makes a difference. I believe we’re doing that in the Justice Department.

—John Ashcroft

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No cause occurs without effect, and no effect occurs without cause. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

—Suzy Kassem

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Politically, it makes sense to be an exponent of justice.

—Richard Dicker

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There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever....

—R.C. Sproul

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Sometimes evil wins, nah, child. But it’s always fleeting. Just a temporary ripple in a sea of goodness, brought on by the carnal nature of greed ’n corruption. Sacrifice washes that ripple out in waves...

—Rachael Wade

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Yes,” said Locke.”Yes, Master Ibelius. I’m going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who’s ever been murdered, ever since the world began.

—Scott Lynch

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I don’t see any reason to let law interfere with justice around here. We never did before.

—Sid Fleischman

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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

—Voltaire

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God, who might have directed the assassin’s dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent. (The Count...

—Alexandre Dumas

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TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, though through a miscarriage of justice most trees bear only a negligible fruit, or none at all. When naturally fruited, the...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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It is important to refuse to be intimidated. That refusal must not be based simply on a calculation of the odds of succeeding. At times, in my case, multiple lawsuits and an ethics charge seemed...

—Anna C. Salter

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But when justice is done the world drops away.

—Anne Carson

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