"Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service."

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"Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service."

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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

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Right is just and true."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."

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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."

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"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas."

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"I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away."

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"Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action."

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"As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge."

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"Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service."

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"I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years."

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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."

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"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings."

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