"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."
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"The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege."
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"He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just."
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"We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?"
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"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form."
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". . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!"
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"Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning."
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"Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman."
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"The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world."
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"When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense."
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"Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass."
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"The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
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"Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere."
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"We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt."
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"In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity."
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"Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists."
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"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."
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"The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action."
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"Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts."
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"Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war."
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