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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
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.
Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.
Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.
There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.
Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.
It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.
I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them
There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.
I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.
If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.
That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.
Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.
I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.
We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.
Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely.
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.
This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.
I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.
The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.