"For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn."
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"If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice."
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"I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence"
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"Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people ."
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"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."
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"Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love."
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"An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question."
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"The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams."
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"Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist."
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"The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own."
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"For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice."
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"Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos."
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"Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law."
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"Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units."
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"Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality."
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"Everyone was so good at what they were doing, and what they were bringing onto the table, that I was confident. I guess I was just trying to keep up, really, that was my hope at the end of the day; that I could do them justice and do the story [Maze Runner] justice and do Wes [Ball] justice."
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"The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."
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"I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice."
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"What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one."
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"One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. Thats very important."
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