"You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
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"We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law."
"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man."
"Deep in the human heart The fire of justice burns; A vision of a world renewed Through radical concern."
"Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues."
"Compassion is where peace and justice kiss"
"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love."
"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."
"The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force."
"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."
"Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody."
"Nothing is worse than active ignorance."
"For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight."
"In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself."
"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."
"A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens."
"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved."
"Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love."
"Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."