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The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.
The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.
I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.
Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?
You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle of crime and punishment.
The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.
It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.
It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.
I did The Commish and an episode of Neon Rider, and then I got the series called Street Justice, which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of.
Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .
A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.
Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.
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!
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.
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.