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For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.
I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.
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.
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.
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.
When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.
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.
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.
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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].
Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.
Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.
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.
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.
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
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.
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
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.
Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.
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.
True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.
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.
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."
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.
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
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!
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.
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.
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.
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.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
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.
We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.
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.
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.
I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.
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.
All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.
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.
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
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.
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.
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.