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Justice Quotes

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Of course I believe in free enterprise, but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

- Harry S Truman

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

- Jonathan Swift

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When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

- Dom Helder Camara

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We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.

- Hierocles

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

- Paulo Freire

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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

- Dolores Ibarruri

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

- Aristotle

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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

- Gloria Steinem

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

- Michael Harrington

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

- Earl Warren

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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

- Henri-Frederic Amiel

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