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"We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land."
"A unjust law, is no law at all."
"Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny."
"Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not."
"So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues."
"Violence will only increase the cycle of violence."
"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
"To do injustice is the greatest of all evils."
"Justice is having and doing what is one's own."
"May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?"
"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."
"On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea."
"Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa."
"God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me."
"Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them."
"If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it."
"Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow."
"justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation."
"In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people."
"Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good."
