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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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
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Personal Development

"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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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
Power

"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."
Politics

"The future is purchased by the present."
Future

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Life

"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him."
Nature

"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."
Trust

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
Life

"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Life
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