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Justice Quotes
"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
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"A free nation is built on the principles of justice, equality, and the pursuit of shared aspirations."
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"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
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"We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all."
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"Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?"
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"Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice."
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"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
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"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."
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"Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."
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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
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"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."
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"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
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"A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice."
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment."
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"Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances."
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"There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression."
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"In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living."
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"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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"Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?"
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"Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you."
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"If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail."
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"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."
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"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."
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"Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness."
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"When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications."
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"Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded--face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains--the act was hers--not another."
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"We enact many laws that manufacture criminals and then a few that punish them."
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"Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines."
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"If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop."
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"The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader."
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"I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others."
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