"It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts."
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"In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here"
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"When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory."
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"We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another."
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"A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers."
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"Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere."
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"It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity."
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"Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy."
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"MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious."
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"Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!"
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"That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were."
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"I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events."
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"Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice."
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"A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state."
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"Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice."
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"To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical."
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"For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system."
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"Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership."
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"Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary."
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"Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide."
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