"If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent."
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"Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."
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"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
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"The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic."
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"If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances."
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"Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life."
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"We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational."
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"Prejudice is an opinion without judgment."
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"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."
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"Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor."
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"Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments."
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"We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil."
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"Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty."
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"He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace."
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"If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning."
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"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
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"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
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"If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice."
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"Extreme justice is extreme injustice."
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"If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man."
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