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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
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"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."
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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
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"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
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"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."
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"Right is just and true."
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"Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice."
Nature
"No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils."
Nation
"Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice."
People
"The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective."
Men
"Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts."
Circumstance
"War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition."
War
"The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify."
Peace
"It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct."
War
"Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly."
Life
"Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall."
Men
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