"There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice."
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"It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls."
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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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"Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?"
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"Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world."
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"I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality."
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"Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does."
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"Do not expect justice where might is right."
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"I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice."
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"Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense."
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"As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out."
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"To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence."
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"One day Jesus is going to come back and reign with perfect justice. There will be no questions about what's happened. There will be perfect justice and I look forward to that day."
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"Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently."
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"The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously."
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"I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them."
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"Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice."
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"Extreme justice is often injustice."
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"You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil."
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"The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations."
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