"For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice."
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"The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament."
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"Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them."
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"I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country."
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"If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins."
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"Within an hour I can be at the ocean, the forest, the mountains in San Francisco...But really, I fell in love with the city the first time I came out here in 2003. In addition to the natural beauty, this is ground zero for the food justice movement."
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"Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice."
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"Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions."
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"It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice."
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"There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul."
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"The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory."
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"The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation."
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"In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created."
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"We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk."
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"I don't think the special counsel can avoid that question based upon the president's Donald Trump own statements. But I'm not charging obstruction of justice."
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"I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice."
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"They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew."
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"You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice."
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"Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize."
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"Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice."
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