JUSTICE
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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.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
You
just need to be a flea against injustice.
Enough committed fleas biting strategically
can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable
and transform even the biggest nation.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same
coin.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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we have been warned by the power of modern
weapons, that peace may be the only climate
possible for human life itself ... There must
be law, steadily invoked and respected by
all nations, for without law, the world promises
only such meager justice as the pity of the
strong upon the weak."
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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We must apply our humble efforts to the construction
of a more just and humane world. And I want
to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible.
To create this new society, we must present
outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred
and rancor, even as we show great determination
and never waver in the defense of truth and
justice. Because we know that we cannot sow
seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must
open our hands.
-- Adolfo
Perez Esquivel
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…
we believe in the vocation of communion and participation
of our people, who day to day awaken to their political
conscience and express their desire for change and
profound democratization of society. A change based
on justice, built with love, and which will bring
us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.
-- Adolfo Perez
Esquivel
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"...In a world riven by inequity, medicine
could be viewed as social justice work."
-- Paul Farmer
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"...our
civilization, so addicted to knowledge, has
fled from wisdom. Knowledge is very, very
powerful. If it is not tempered and contoured
by greater visions, like justice, compassion,
beauty, grace and thinking of the next generation
and seven generations to come -- then indeed,
it is dangerous. Unfortunately, many of our
educational systems in the West are still
very dangerous places."
-- Matthew
Fox
Compassion
is the essence of Jesus’ teaching, and indeed
of the teaching of all great spiritual figures
from Mohammed to Isaiah, from Lao Tzu to Chief
Seattle. Yet compassion has been sentimentalized
and severed from its relationship to justice-making
and celebration. Creation Spirituality links
the struggle for justice with the yearning
for mysticism.
-- Matthew
Fox
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War is not in itself a condition so much as
the symptom of a condition, that of international
anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war
the settlement of disputes by justice, we
must first substitute for the condition of
international anarchy a condition of international
order
-- Alfred Hermann
Fried
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"The ultimate object of education should be,
Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced
and harmonious individual but also a balanced
and harmonious society where true justice
prevails, where there is no unnatural division
between the "haves" and the "have-nots," and
where everybody is assured of a living wage
and the right to live and the right to freedom."
-- Arun
Gandhi
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"Next
in importance to freedom and justice is popular
education, without which neither freedom nor justice
can be permanently maintained."
-- James A. Garfield (1880)
Our
planet has run out of patience. So has our sense
of justice. It is time to step it up -- and
up -- and up -- until we reach the only goal
that really matters: peace among people and
peace between people and nature.
-- Ross Gelbspan
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That
alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring
which is right.
-- Henry George
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"We live in an age in which the fundamental
principles to which we subscribe -- liberty,
equality and justice for all -- are encountering
extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also
an age in which we can join hands with others
who hold to those principles and face similar
challenges.”
--
Ruth Bader
Ginsburg
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“Whatever community organization, whether
it's a women's organization, or fighting for
racial justice … you will get satisfaction
out of doing something to give back to the
community that you never get in any other
way.”
-- Ruth Bader
Ginsburg
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“Equal
Justice Under The Law.” That is a great goal. But
that goal has not been realized.
-- Justice Arthur Joseph Goldberg
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"What
does labor want? We want more schoolhouses
and less jails; more books and less arsenals;
more learning and less vice; more leisure
and less greed; more justice and less revenge;
in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate
our better natures, to make manhood more noble,
womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more
happy and bright."
-- Samuel
Gompers
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"All
ideologies end up killing people. If you separate
love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into
an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not
inhabited by justice and love have no liberating
or reconciling force, and are never sources of life."
-- Jean Goss
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Today,
people are talking about many things: the
danger of war and frequent clashes, water
and air pollution, hunger, the increasing
erosion of moral values, and so on. As a result,
many other concerns have come to the fore:
peace, contentment, ecology, justice, tolerance,
and dialogue. Unfortunately, despite certain
promising precautions, those who should be
tackling these problems tend to do so by seeking
further ways to conquer and control nature
and produce more lethal weapons.
-- M. Fethullah
Gülen
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"Never be discouraged from being an activist
because people tell you that you'll not succeed.
You have already succeeded if you're out there
representing truth or justice or compassion
or fairness or love."
-- Doris
Haddock (Granny D)
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“The
problem, of course, lies with the realities
concealed from us. This has always been the
case. While the American public has slowly
grappled with ongoing injustices visible within
our own borders, it has long failed to discover
and correct our government's abuses abroad.
In the end, however, this is our government,
and torture is being utilized in our names
and supported by our tax dollars. We are responsible.”
-- Jennifer
Harbury
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I would like to appeal to all those in whose
hands the future of mankind lies, to use their
power not to destroy or kill, nor to create
suffering in a grasping search for selfish
objectives, but to help alleviate the plight
of the needy; to aim at justice and freedom
for the individual.
-- Poul Hartling
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Let us never cease to feel compassion for
those in want. Let us never tire of helping
victims of injustice and oppression. He who
puts his faith in the restoration of human
dignity cannot be wrong.
-- Poul Hartling
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"Peace
is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is
a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security.
Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace
is the capacity to transcend past hurts -- to break
cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say,
“I would like to make sure we live as a community
where there is justice, security, and development
for all members.” At the end of the day, peace is
an investment; it is something you create by investing
in a way of life and monitoring where your resources
go."
-- Noeleen Heyzer
The
sword of murder is not the balance of justice.
Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence
indicate possession. As men have often forsaken
the plow and the anvil at the summons of war,
let women now leave all that may be left of
home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail & commemorate
the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with
each other as to the means whereby the great
human family can live in peace, each bearing
after his own time the sacred impress, not of
Caesars but of God.
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I
am firmly convinced that in the world of today
all nations will be forced to the conclusion
that cooperation for law, justice, and peace
is the only alternative to a constant race
in armaments--including atomic armaments--and
to other disruptive practices that will bring
the nations participating in them on either
side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal
suicide.
-- Cordell Hull
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The
Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their
organizations, both grassroots activists for
justice, and national and international social
change agents.
-- Helen
LaKelly Hunt
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I pledge to protect the earth
And respect the Web of Life upon it
And to honor the dignity of every member of
our global family
One planet, one people, one world in harmony
With peace, justice and freedom for all.
-- John Ince
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This
is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason
the only torch; justice the only worship,
humanity the only religion, and love the only
priest.
~ Robert
G. Ingersoll
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