"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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"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person."

People, News, Post, Washington

"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."

Education, Children, School, Violence

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

Politics, State, Years

"I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year."

Time, Elections, Vote, Want

"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."

Justice, Quick, Service

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

Television,

"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."

Education, People, Energy, Jobs

"There is a thin line between politics and theatricals."

Politics,

"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."

Policy, Day, End, Meeting

"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."

People, Struggle

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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

Justice, Men, Crime, Driving, Interest

"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

Justice, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Justice, Responsibility, Prison, Truth

"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Justice, Morality, Religion, Hate, Politics

"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Justice, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas."

Steven Magee, British Author

Justice, Abuse, Truth, Society

"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

Justice, Equity, Fairness, Impartiality, Society

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

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Justice, Mercy, Love, 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."

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