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"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
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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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"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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"The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable."
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"One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such demonic people, never use the same immoral methods, because to defeat a poisonous snake you don't have to be a poisonous snake yourself!"
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"Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land."
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"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."
Awareness
"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
Justice
"I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely."
Family
"The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities."
Education
"As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns."
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"My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst."
Learning
"I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life."
Life
"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."
Information
"If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?"
Economy
"Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation."
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