"Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice."
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"The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love."
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"The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing."
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"Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong."
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"The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice."
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"No future without forgiveness."
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"There is no justice in killing in the name of justice."
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"When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation."
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"A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour."
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"Return good for good; return evil with justice."
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"Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor."
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"Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face."
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"To be human you must bear witness to justice."
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"There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious."
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"I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions."
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"In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs."
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"The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom."
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"Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law."
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"Justice is Equality...but equality of what?"
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"Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn."
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