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"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us."
"I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here."
"A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west."
"Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others."
"One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself."
"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."
"Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master."
"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice."
"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
"Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance."
"What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice."
"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
"We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise."
"Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it."
"When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition."
"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."
"'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose."
