"Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country."
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"As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all."
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"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."
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"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
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"People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made"
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"Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public"
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"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice."
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"When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men."
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"I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here."
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"Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions."
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"If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication."
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"As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us."
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"The worst form of injustice is pretended justice."
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"There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can."
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"Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life."
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"We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters."
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"Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance."
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"Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers."
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"All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom."
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"One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."
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