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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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"The innocent must not suffer."
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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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"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
Religion
"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."
Romantic
"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."
Age
"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
Delight
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked."
Ambition
"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
Poetry
"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."
Man
"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
Love
"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
Art
"My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them."
Thought
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