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    Elie Wiesel
    “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
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: equity, justice, laws
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: clemency, forgiveness, justice, legal-system, mandatory-sentences, mercy
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    Bryan Stevenson
    “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
    ― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
    tags: justice
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen
    tags: 2000, justice, kahlan-amnell, pity
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    Bryant McGill
    “Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
    tags: beliefs, free-speech, freedom, guarding, guards, injustice, justice, protection
    142 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: evil, justice, means-justifying-the-ends, society
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    Erica O'Rourke
    “Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.”
    ― Erica O'Rourke, Torn
    tags: justice, pain, revenge
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    Reinhold Niebuhr
    “Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
    ― Reinhold Niebuhr, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses
    tags: democracy, justice
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  • #10
    “To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.”
    ― Roseanne Barr
    tags: bulls, fairness, justice, life, vegetarianism
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    Edmund Burke
    “It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”
    ― Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America
    tags: humanity, justice, lawyer, reason
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    “Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved.”
    ― Emily Thorne
    tags: beholder, deserve, evil, innocent, justice, revenge, revenge-tv-series, victim
    70 likes

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    David Gemmell
    “Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.”
    ― David Gemmell, Lion of Macedon
    tags: fairness, justice, life
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: freedom, justice, oppression, slavery
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    Edmund Burke
    “Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: justice, society, truth
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    “Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.”
    ― Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
    tags: christian, civil-rights, justice, love, race
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    Sean Covey
    “We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.”
    ― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
    tags: choices, consequences, responsibility
    232 likes



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