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The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.
To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.
loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who
The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.
Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.
Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.
There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.
Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice which has been severely questioned.
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do
It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love - they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds.
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.
The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.
Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.
If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.