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You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.
When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.
Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals.
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
I mean, I really loved the mix of personal health and, kind of, community health and justice, and I really saw how they were inseparable.
Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."
To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!
True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.
Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.
I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.
I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.
All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.
The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.
The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.
Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will devour your very soul.
We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.
Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.