"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."

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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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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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."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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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."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Justice, Truth, Politeness, Law, Storytelling

"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Justice, God, Fate, Philosophy

"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."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Justice, Freedom, Power, Love

"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Justice, Freedom, Innocence, Humanity, Loss

"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."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."

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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."

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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Success, Men, Ability, Jobs

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

Progress, Courage, Effort, Energy, Labor

"We should not take part in acting a lie any more than in telling a lie. Weshould not say that men are equal where they are not equal, nor proceed uponthe assumption that there is an equality where it does not exist; but we shouldstrive to bring about a measurable equality, at least to the extent of preventingthe inequality which is due to force or fraud."

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"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."

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"Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat."

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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."

"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."

"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

"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."

"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."

"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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"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."

"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."

"Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat."