JUSTICE
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Silence
in the face of injustice is complicity with
the opressor.
-- Ginetta
Sagan
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"I've
always had a really developed sense of justice.
As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses
for fear that they might come alive at midnight
and one of them would always have the best
dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry
about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my
career because, really, an actor is all about
empathy and imagination. And those are the
cornerstones of activism."
-- Susan
Sarandon
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I try to live my life every day in the present,
and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice
and need.
-- Susan
Sarandon
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Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice,
disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats,
civil-rights activists, and defenders of the
environment are legions in a single multiform
cause, and they will gain strength by knowing
it, taking encouragement from it, and when appropriate
and opportune, pooling their efforts.
-- Jonathan Schell
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The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty
and justice for all." What part of "all" don't
you understand?
~ Patricia
Schroeder
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I
am still a journeyman actor and a peace and
justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win
my freedom and serve as best I can in the time
I have, with this gift I've been given.
-- Martin Sheen |
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"The primary threat to nature and people today
comes from centralising and monopolising power
and control. Not until diversity is made the
logic of production will there be a chance
for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating
and conserving diversity is no luxury in our
times: it is a survival imperative."
~ Vandana Shiva
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Many
folks have asked me, ‘How do you do it and
why have you sacrificed so much to do this
work? The answer comes easy. I look at my
daughter and find hope in that she is living
in a world of struggle, of social and political
movement. She and the other five-year-olds
will grow up in a more just, more equitable
world. She motivates me.
-- Lateefah
Simon
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We have more than enough programs, organisations,
parties, and strategies in the world for the
alleviation of suffering and injustice.
-- Sulak
Sivaraksa
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"Justice
is conscience, not a personal conscience but the
conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly
recognize the voice of their own conscience usually
recognize also the voice of justice."
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Peace
is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state
of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence,
justice.
-- Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
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“Love
is stronger than justice.”
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“To
make the public sentiment, on the side of
all that is just and true and noble, is
the highest use of life.”
-- Lucy Stone
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“Now all we need is to continue to speak
the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to
our number those who will turn the scale
to the side of equal and full justice in
all things.”
-- Lucy Stone
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War
crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness,
all that is Godlike in man.
In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable;
there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
-- Charles Sumner
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If the ecological crisis, for example, is
to be solved and if we are to promote genuine
justice and thus bring real peace to the planet—and
with it the possibility of improving lives
on every level, not just economically, socially,
and politically, but spiritually, psychologically,
and intellectually—then, just on a practical
level, we need to have all of the religions
working together."
~ Brother
Wayne Teasdale
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The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This
great and inspiring instrument was born of
an increased sense of responsibility by the
international community for the promotion
and protection of man’s basic rights and freedoms.
The world has come to a clear realization
of the fact that freedom, justice and world
peace can only be assured through the international
promotion and protection of these rights and
freedoms.
-- U Thant,
Third United Nations Secretary-General, 1961-1971
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Courage,
it would seem, is nothing less than the power to
overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while
continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all
its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful
even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and
that there is always tomorrow.
-- Dorothy Thompson
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We
add our voice ... to those who struggle for
the recognition and protection for their rights
and cultures, because to the extent that we
respect our differences, we shall build a
life with more justice.
-- Francisco
Toledo
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"All
who affirm the use of violence admit it is only
a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace
and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history.
Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history.
Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history,
betraying history."
-- André Trocmé
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Today,
I wish that the millions of displaced people
would be able to return with the necessary
conditions of safety and dignity, that people
in exile could return to their home-country
as the intelligence is needed, that cruelty,
political killings, poverty and hunger cease.
I wish that our people recover their dignity,
truth is revealed and justice exists.
-- Alirio Uribe
Muñoz
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“Injustice moves me and the feeling of working
efficiently for justice gives me energy”. And
in the meantime there is “a world of contrasts:
the real one, where human rights of the majority
are violated; and the other one, the ideal,
where they are guaranteed to every one”.
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An
act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an
act of vengeance writes one of its own
-- Marilyn Vos Savant
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In many parts of the world the people are
searching for a solution which would link
the two basic values: peace and justice. The
two are like bread and salt for mankind.
-- Lech Walesa
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We
desire peace - and that is why we have never resorted
to physical force. We crave for justice - and that
is why we are so persistent in the struggle for
our rights. We seek freedom of convictions - and
that is why we have never attempted to enslave man's
conscience, nor shall we ever attempt to do so.
We are fighting for the right of the working people
to association and for the dignity of human labor.
We respect the dignity and the rights of every man
and every nation. The path to a brighter future
of the world leads through honest reconciliation
of the conflicting interests and not through hatred
and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance
the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human
solidarity.
-- Lech Walesa
It
is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps
justice alive.
-- Earl Warren
"Observe
good faith
and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace
and harmony with all."
-- George Washington
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists
of behaving exactly as though there were equality
when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
-- Simone Weil
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Society is based on that great bottom law of
human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit
liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade
of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances,
can annul that birthright charter, which God
has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has
stamped his own image, by making him a free
moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow
man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice,
outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation
of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes
the prerogative of God."
-- Theodore Weld
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"A federation of all humanity, together with
a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure
health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity
to most of the children born into the world,
would mean such a release and increase of human
energy as to open a new phase in human history."
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“One
had better die fighting against injustice than
die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”
-- Ida B. Wells
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Politics is about the improvement of people's
lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace
and justice in our country and the world.
Politics is about doing well for the people.
-- Paul
Wellstone
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“There can’t be peace in the world if there
isn’t justice.”
-- Barbara
Wiedner
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There may be times when we are powerless to
prevent injustice, but there must never be a
time when we fail to protest.
-- Elie Wiesel
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“There
is no freedom without justice.”
-- Simon
Wiesenthal
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My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work
is for a better tomorrow and a more secure
future for our children and grandchildren.
-- Simon
Wiesenthal
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“An enormous discrepancy exists between the
way we talk about equality in the abstract
and the value as translated into laws and
justice.”
~Roy Wilkins
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We have to speak out now on behalf of our
community and on behalf of the land and say
they're the same thing and say "No, we are
not rolling over" and "No, this is not a corporate
enterprise." This is democracy in the fullest
sense and we must have regard and reverence
and those are the cornerstones of a just society.
~
Terry
Tempest Williams
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We have come this far always believing
that justice would somehow prevail.
This is the burden, this is the promise,
and THIS is why we will not fail.
-- Peter Yarrow
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I
love life and want to hold onto it. But my
passion for justice for my tormented people,
for their dignity and freedom, must be greater
still. For of what value is a life of slavery,
of humiliation and
contempt for that which you hold most dear:
Your identity! I will therefore not give in
to the Turkish Inquisition.
-- Leyla Zana
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Our planet is dying - both spiritually and
physically. Fear, aggression and greed, narrow-minded
national interests and immature dominance
and control over others is a common theme
in most countries. However, there are more
and more people who define themselves as global
citizens, who know that life is intimately
interconnected, and that we can never be fully
human whilst others continue to suffer, and
who know that love, justice and nonviolence
is the very essence of life. And what gives
me hope is the very many different ways in
which ordinary people are taking responsibility.
They are creating the changes needed to pass
beyond war and injustice, control and dominance
and towards a free, just, loving, and diverse
world.
-- Angie Zelter
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If
you join a fight for social justice you may
win or lose, but just by being part of the
struggle, you win, and your life will be better
for it.
-- Howard
Zinn
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