"A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies."
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"What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis."
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"Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice."
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"A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory."
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"To be Negro in America is to hope against hope."
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"Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever."
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"A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve."
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"I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have."
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"The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court."
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"True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake."
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"There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster."
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"In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear."
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"What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow."
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"A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice."
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"A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time."
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"SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?"
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"The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another."
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"This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . ."
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"This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace."
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"I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone."
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