"Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life."
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"Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you."
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"Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!"
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"Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here."
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"But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head."
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"Passion is more important than justice."
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"My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!"
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"Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens."
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"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."
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"Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice."
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"Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?"
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"Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own."
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"If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot."
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"Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct."
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"Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship."
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"Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment."
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"Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter."
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"There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse."
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"Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness."
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"And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together."
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