"My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary."
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"If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons."
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"If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good."
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"We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force."
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"White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what."
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"It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself."
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"If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free."
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"Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt."
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"Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin."
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"We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men."
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"They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong."
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"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement."
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"Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers."
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"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."
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"It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance."
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"The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both."
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"I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world."
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"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."
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"There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity."
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"Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love"
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