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The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.
There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.
In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions dream of and never make, and I wanted to do justice to all those dreams.
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.
Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]
The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.
Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.
The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.
It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.
Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.
Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.
[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?
No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.