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“Where there is no property there is no injustice.”
— John Locke
“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”
— John Muir
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“At his best man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst”
— Aristotle
“Justice is not to be taken by storm she is to be wooed by slow advances”
— Benjamin Cardozo
“There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.”
— Joseph Addison
“If there is no struggle there is no progress”
— Frederick Douglass
“Justice is not just the absence of oppression it is the presence of opportunity”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“When we fight for justice we fight for all communities”
— Patrisse Cullors
“When we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope”
— Wangari Maathai
“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Justice is an experience of the impossible”
— Jacques Derrida
“There is no justice without love and there is no love without justice”
— James Cone
“Justice demands integrity it demands that one act in ways consistent with what one knows is right”
— bell hooks
“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children”
— Sitting Bull
“The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld
“Hope will never be silent”
— Harvey Milk
“Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.”
— Justinian I
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor”
— Desmond Tutu
“An unjust law is no law at all”
— Augustine of Hippo
“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it and then dismantle it”
— Ibram X. Kendi
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.”
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you cannot help them at least do not hurt them”
— Dalai Lama
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot accept”
— Angela Davis
“If we cannot see a problem we cannot fix a problem”
— Kimberle Crenshaw
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”
— Plato
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you”
— Pericles
“Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is mans original virtue”
— Oscar Wilde
“If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.”
— Democritus
“I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution”
— Fred Hampton
“You cannot be neutral on a moving train”
— Howard Zinn
“The powers that be are not simply people they are structures systems and institutions”
— Walter Wink
“The secret of our success is that we never never give up”
— Wilma Mankiller
“In a free society some are guilty but all are responsible”
— Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”
— Nelson Mandela
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise”
— Tacitus
“Justice is truth in action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“The banality of evil is the most terrifying aspect of our modern world”
— Hannah Arendt
“The time is always right to do what is right”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is one safeguard known generally to the wise which is an advantage and security to all especially to democracies what is it distrust”
— Demosthenes
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
— Blaise Pascal
“One of the finest things about being an Indian is that people are always interested in you and your plight”
— Vine Deloria Jr.
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
— George Washington
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
— Mencius
“When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply Ours”
“It is the little things citizens do that will make the difference”
“History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again”
— Maya Angelou
“Human rights is a universal standard it is a component of every religion and every civilization”
— Shirin Ebadi
“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred”
— Vaclav Havel
“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”
— Bertrand Russell
“Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses”
— Heraclitus
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage”
— Lao Tzu
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
— Charles Dickens
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you”
— Wendell Berry
“The foundation of justice is good faith.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.”
— Unknown
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Your silence will not protect you”
— Audre Lorde
“Utopia is on the horizon when I walk two steps it takes two steps back I walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away what is utopia for it is for walking”
— Eduardo Galeano
“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people”
— Felix Frankfurter
“Justice is not only about the right way to distribute things it is also about the right way to value things”
— Michael Sandel
“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality”
“I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions but really I am neither for nor against institutions what I am after is a new beginning”
— Walt Whitman
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control”
— Martha Nussbaum
“Transform yourself to transform the world”
— Grace Lee Boggs
“Civil disobedience is not our problem our problem is civil obedience”
“There is infinite hope just not for us”
— Franz Kafka
“The trouble is that once you see it you cannot unsee it and once you have seen it keeping quiet saying nothing becomes as political an act as speaking out”
— Arundhati Roy
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny”
— Wole Soyinka
“Truth is powerful and it prevails”
— Sojourner Truth
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
— Jose Marti
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“Understanding the past is essential for building a just future”
— Nikole Hannah-Jones
“We are the ones we have been waiting for”
— June Jordan
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
— Voltaire
“We have to improve life not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system but for the people who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity”
— Dorothy Height
“If there is a book you want to read but it has not been written yet then you must write it”
— Toni Morrison
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”
“We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers”
— Bayard Rustin
“Freedom is never given it is won”
— A. Philip Randolph
“Man is unjust, but God is just; and justice finally triumphs.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect”
— Mark Twain
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“When those who have power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you whether you are dark-skinned old disabled female or speak with a different accent or dialect than theirs when someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you are not in it there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium”
— Adrienne Rich
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool”
— Chinua Achebe
“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay, right or justice.”
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”
— William Blackstone
“Deeds not words”
— Emmeline Pankhurst
“I too sing America”
— Langston Hughes
“A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky”
— Crazy Horse
“We are each others harvest we are each others business we are each others magnitude and bond”
— Gwendolyn Brooks
“If they do not give you a seat at the table bring a folding chair”
— Shirley Chisholm
“The measure of a man is what he does with power”
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil not to speak is to speak not to act is to act”
“Empowerment through empathy is the key to healing communities”
— Tarana Burke
“A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family”
— Hugo Grotius
“You would not abandon ship in a storm just because you could not control the winds”
— Thomas More
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community”
— Aldo Leopold
“I am invisible understand simply because people refuse to see me”
— Ralph Ellison
“Real change enduring change happens one step at a time”
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”
— David Hume
“I was only a young girl when I realized the grave injustice of taking peoples land and culture”
— Zitkala-Sa
“Remember you are all people and all people are you”
— Joy Harjo
“The galaxy of practice and policy that maintains racial hierarchy is not a matter of intent but of architecture”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the members are poor and miserable”
— Adam Smith
“Do not be unjust to others and you will not be a slave to injustice yourself.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Laws are like spiders webs which stand firm when any light yielding object falls upon them while a weightier thing breaks through and escapes”
— Solon
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless there is too much work to do”
— Dorothy Day
“The heartbeat of racism is denial the heartbeat of antiracism is confession”
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison”
“Justice delayed is justice denied.”
— William Ewart Gladstone
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions”
— John Rawls
“Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare does not make a corporation a terrorist”
— Winona LaDuke
“Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the war on drugs”
— Michelle Alexander
“Peace is not the product of terror or fear peace is not the silence of cemeteries”
— Oscar Romero
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves”
— Abraham Lincoln
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.”
— Socrates
“You are never too small to make a difference”
— Greta Thunberg
“Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Equal rights for all special privileges for none”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The only real prison is fear and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders it is good to remember that the planet is carrying you”
— Vandana Shiva
“We do not need to reinvent human rights we need to implement them”
— Kofi Annan
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
— Edmund Burke
“No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening each time for the first time for the only time”
— James Baldwin
“Justice cannot be for one side alone but must be for both”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“We as women must stand up and speak truth we must stand up and vote”
— Dolores Huerta
“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
— Francis Bacon
“Human rights are not only violated by terrorism repression or assassination but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities”
— Pope Francis
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread”
— Richard Wright
“One child one teacher one book one pen can change the world”
— Malala Yousafzai
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
— Wendell Phillips
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government”
— Thomas Paine
“A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killers hand”
— Seneca
“You wanna fly you got to give up the stuff that weighs you down”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there”
— Rumi
“Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress them there neither persons nor property will be safe”
“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance we ought morally to do it”
— Peter Singer
“True wealth is not measured in money or status or power it is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire”
— Cesar Chavez
“Each generation must discover its mission fulfill it or betray it”
— Frantz Fanon
“The question is not can they reason nor can they talk but can they suffer”
— Jeremy Bentham
“Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression”
— W.E.B. Du Bois
“The welfare of the people is the ultimate law”
“If we do not maintain justice justice will not maintain us”
“A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.”
— Seneca the Younger
“When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.”
— Thucydides
“We love because it is the only true adventure”
— Nikki Giovanni
“I have learned over the years that when ones mind is made up this diminishes fear”
— Rosa Parks
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out”
“The truth will set you free but first it will make you angry”
— Gloria Steinem
“Life is not what you alone make it life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it”
— Yuri Kochiyama
“The racial contract is the truth behind the social contract”
— Charles Mills
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons”
“Peace cannot exist without justice justice cannot exist without fairness fairness cannot exist without development”
— Rigoberta Menchu
“I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually”
“Do your little bit of good where you are it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”
— Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding yourself in the ranks of the insane”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants”
— Louis Brandeis
“It is not our differences that divide us it is our inability to recognize accept and celebrate those differences”
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them”
— Assata Shakur
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high into that heaven of freedom my father let my country awake”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line”
“The only thing rising faster than sea levels is awareness”
— Naomi Klein
“It is not power that corrupts but fear fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it”
— Aung San
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction”
— John Stuart Mill
“The earth does not belong to us we belong to the earth”
— Chief Seattle
“Compassion is a verb”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The genius of the Constitution rests in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems”
— William Brennan
“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
— George Orwell
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”
“Collective liberation is the path to individual freedom”
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
— Elie Wiesel
“They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine”
— Lucille Clifton
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future because unless you believe that the future can be better you are unlikely to step up”
— Noam Chomsky
“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
“Who will guard the guardians themselves”
— Juvenal
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings we pay ourselves the highest tribute”
— Thurgood Marshall
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there no constitution no law no court can save it”
— Learned Hand
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself”
— Albert Camus
“Democracy has to be born anew every generation and education is its midwife”
— John Dewey
“When you see something that is not right not fair not just you have to speak up you have to do something”
— John Lewis
“Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws from within.”
— Hermann Hesse
“The foundation of justice is good faith”
— Cicero
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer”
“Overcoming of anger is the basis of justice, and patience its proof.”
“To will oneself free is also to will others free”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Nobody is free until everybody is free”
— Fannie Lou Hamer
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else”
— Clarence Darrow
“We must center the voices of those most impacted by injustice”
— Alicia Garza
“Struggle is a never ending process freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every generation”
— Coretta Scott King
“I have come to you tonite to say that the time for waiting has passed that the time for action is now”
— Sonia Sanchez
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
“Justice is what love looks like in public”
— Cornel West
“The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.”
— Terence
“The foundations of justice are that no one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.”
“Justice is never served by turning the other into a scapegoat”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from political controversy”
— Robert Jackson
“In civilized life law floats in a sea of ethics”
— Earl Warren
“The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.”
— Solomon
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law”
— Montesquieu
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice”
“My humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together”
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
“The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.”
— Junius
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”
“Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful”
— Paulo Freire
“Compassion is the basis of all morality, but justice is the basis of all society.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.”
“We are not only constituted by our relations but also dispossessed by them”
— Judith Butler
“Freedom by definition is people realizing that they are their own leaders”
— Diane Nash
“History is not made by those who wait for permission”
— Bree Newsome
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform”
— Ban Ki-moon
“The power to tax involves the power to destroy”
— John Marshall
“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud”
— Sophocles
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To exist humanly is to name the world to change it”
“We hold our heads high despite the price we have paid because freedom is priceless”
— Lech Walesa
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
“Every moment is an organizing opportunity every person a potential activist every minute a chance to change the world”
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them”
— Ida B. Wells
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing”
“Our struggle is not about the right to pray in school it is about the right to pray at all”
— Bernice King
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come”
— Victor Hugo
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
“The longest way must have its close the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Justice is not something that comes to those who wait it must be demanded and fought for”
— Elizabeth Warren
“The sword of justice has no scabbard.”
— Joseph de Maistre
“If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise we do not believe in it at all”
“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence.”
“Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”
— Confucius
“In a consumer society contentment is a radical proposition”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest”
“Liberty means responsibility that is why most men dread it”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Saving our planet lifting people out of poverty advancing economic growth these are one and the same fight”
“A people without knowledge of their past history origin and culture is like a tree without roots”
— Ngugi wa Thiongo
“Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation”
— Mary Robinson
“An animal has its being in its world but the human being stands in the world”
— Martin Buber
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”
— Epictetus
“The face of the other calls me to justice”
— Emmanuel Levinas
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”
— Harriet Tubman
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another”
“If you are silent about your pain they will kill you and say you enjoyed it”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“What I treasure most in life is being able to dream about the day when the oppressed and the exploited can sit together as equals”
“The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“We have not ended racial caste in America we have merely redesigned it”
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public”
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”
— Immanuel Kant
“I would hope that a wise person with the richness of experiences would reach a better conclusion”
— Sonia Sotomayor
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
— Theodore Parker
“Another world is not only possible she is on her way on a quiet day I can hear her breathing”
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights the source of humanity and the mother of truth”
— Liu Xiaobo
“Give light and people will find the way”
— Ella Baker
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”
“The opposite of poverty is not wealth the opposite of poverty is justice”
— Bryan Stevenson
“How can we win when we were never meant to be in the game”
— Kimberly Jones
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any”
— Alice Walker
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you”
— Octavia Butler
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil”
“When the legends die the dreams end there is no more greatness”
— Tecumseh
“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”
“Hatred does not cease by hatred but only by love this is the eternal rule”
— Buddha
“Do not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it because what the world needs is people who have come alive”
— Howard Thurman
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves”
“Justice requires not merely that individuals be treated fairly but that social structures be fair”
— Iris Marion Young
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other peoples concerns”
“We win justice not by meeting impossible standards but by refusing to let them define us”
— Stacey Abrams
“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart”
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about the progress and prosperity for our community”
“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
“To live is to choose but to choose well you must know who you are and what you stand for”
“Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to people”
— Simone Weil
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
“He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?”
— Lord Byron
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done”
“Extreme justice is often injustice.”
— Jean Racine
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness”
“In nature nothing exists alone”
— Rachel Carson
“We live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
“Poverty is not just a lack of money it is not having the capability to realize ones full potential as a human being”
— Amartya Sen
“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love”
— William Sloane Coffin
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
“What the people want is very simple they want an America as good as its promise”
— Barbara Jordan
“Until the lions have their own historians the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”
“Prisons do not disappear social problems they disappear human beings”
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
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