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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Justice satisfies everybody.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Maria Edgeworth (1867). “Frank”, p.68

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• Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking, Men, Doctrine

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

  Aristotle

  Self Centered

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• Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

  William Shakespeare

  Naked, Steel, Locks

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.478

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• If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

  Ben Cohen

  Energy, Complaining, Can Do

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• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.197, Tara Publishing

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• Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Strength, Coward, Faults

  1766 The Vicar of Wakefield, ch.13.

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• Justice is incidental to law and order.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Order, Law, Fairness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Law, Judging

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Fire, House, Alarms

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• Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

  Samuel Butler

  Innocence, Sometimes, Crime

  Samuel Butler (1806). “Hudibras: In three parts, written in the time of the late wars”, p.248

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• May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, May, Masters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Struggle, Creativity, Alive

  Simon Soloveychik (2010). “Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?”, p.115, Aigul Aubanova

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• The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, History, Historical

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.108, A&C Black

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• Thou shalt not ration justice.

  Sophocles

  Rations

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• Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

  Lydia M. Child

  Law, Principles, Eternal

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• We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Winning, Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Compassion is no substitute for justice.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Compassion, Substitutes, Owners

  "Undeniable Truth #35" in Limbaugh's radio show, February 18, 1994.

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• Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Majority, Development, Earth

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• For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.

  Agnivesh

  Spiritual, Order, Challenges

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Crush, Strong, Deceit

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• Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

  Peter Benenson

  Rights, Support, Amnesty International

  The Amnesty International Report, p. 22, 2002.

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• Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Hatred, Political

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