- Mercy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice Quotes
On fairness, nature's justice, and social change.
One recurring idea here is striking: that nature itself outvotes us, remembering longer and judging more strictly than human institutions ever could. Elsewhere, justice is framed as the goal of a teaching movement rather than a courtroom concept. Peace touches similar territory.
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- Forging
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
- Every American
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- Nov 07, 2020