JUSTICE
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"We cannot close ourselves off to information
and ignore the fact that millions of people
are out there suffering. I honestly want to
help. I don't believe I feel differently from
other people. I think we all want justice
and equality, a chance for a life with meaning.
All of us would like to believe that if we
were in a bad situation someone would help
us."
~ Angelina Jolie
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"My
path in life led me to involvement in several
movements for social justice and change."
-- Marilee Karl
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"If
people have moral courage to stand up to the smallest
injustice – their own and other’s – it’s kind of
like practice for when the big ones come around."
-- Colleen Kelly
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We
are experiencing a unique convergence of
forces, not only the forces of scandal,
but the forces of change. We can use this
moment to take corporate social responsibility
to the next level, the level of economic
democracy. We can become a new founding
generation, completing the design in the
economic realm that our forefathers began
in the political realm. Instead of chasing
one form of corporate wrongdoing at a time,
we can put in place enduring structures
of justice, effective structures of checks
and balances. For it is only in this way
that we can truly safeguard the common good,
not only for today, but for generation after
generation to come.
-- Marjorie
Kelly
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A truly free society must not include a "peace"
which oppresses us. We must learn on our own
terms what peace and freedom mean together.
There can be no peace if there is social injustice
and suppression of human rights, because external
and internal peace are inseparable. Peace
is not just the absence of mass destruction,
but a positive internal and external condition
in which people are free so that they can
grow to their full potential.
-- Petra Kelly
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"World
peace, like community peace, does not require
that each man love his neighbor -- it requires
only that they live together with mutual tolerance,
submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful
settlement."
-- John
F. Kennedy
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It is from the numberless diverse acts of
courage and belief that human history is shaped.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or
acts to improve the lot of others or strikes
out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny
ripple of hope, and crossing each other from
a million different centers of energy and
daring, those ripples build a current that
can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
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Centuries
ago, Spinoza said "Peace was not the absence
of war but a disposition for benevolence,
truth and justice". This definition shows
how much the individual can achieve in his
daily life in the name of peace.
-- Imane
Khalifeh
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There can be no peace without justice and
respect for human rights.
-- Irene
Khan
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can be no peace without justice and respect
for human rights. I passionately believe in
the power of human rights as a set of global
values to bring our fractured and divided
world together. Around the world human rights
activists are giving hope to millions of people
- women, indigenous people, the poor and the
marginalised - in their struggle for equality
and dignity.
-- Irene
Khan
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Collectively, we have all it takes to create
a just and peaceful world, but we must work
together and share our talents. We all need
one another to find happiness within ourselves
and within the world.
-- Craig
Kielburger
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"Democracy is the absolute value that
makes for human dignity, as well as the only
road to sustained economic development and
social justice."
-- Kim Dae-jung
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension,
it is the presence of Justice.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We are caught in an inescapable network of
mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all
indirectly.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
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"The
hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined
nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace
and brotherhood."
--
Martin Luther King,
Jr
"We
have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures
of power, indescribably complicated problems to
solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether
and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence
of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is
as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and
violence between nations as it is to put an end
to poverty and racial injustice."
-- Martin Luther King
Jr (1929-1968)
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One
who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him
is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty
of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice, is in reality
expressing the highest respect for law.
--
Martin Luther King,
Jr
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"Peace
does not fare well where poverty and deprivation
reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance
and a lack of education and information. Repression,
injustice and exploitation are inimical with
peace. Peace is gravely threatened by inter-group
fear and envy and by the unleashing of unrealistic
expectations. Racial, class and religious intolerance
and prejudice are its mortal enemies."
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Our ultimate objective in learning about anything
is to try to create and develop a more just
society.
-- Yuri
Kochiyama
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"Forgiveness
is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer
carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does
not mean we will allow injustice again."
--Jack Kornfield
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We
can shape the national sentiment with our
voices of compassion and reason. We can send
the simple message that we must not kill innocent
people in the name of justice.
-- Fran
Korten
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Let us today seek to find that place within
each of us where dreams are made, where our
highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm
the power of our humanity by giving architecture
and substance to the dreams we have for our
nation, so that the promised land of social
and economic justice that is within our dreams
will soon be within our sight.
-- Dennis Kucinich
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Citizens
across the United States are now uniting in a great
cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking
nothing less than the transformation of our society,
to make non-violence an organizing principle, to
make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift
in our culture for human development, for economic
and political justice and for violence control.
-- Dennis Kucinich
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I
feel privileged to work at an organization
that is part of a growing movement to help
people adopt environmental and social justice
practices into their lives and helps them
encourage these values in the broader economy,
where our consumer and investor dollars can
"vote" for sustainability. At a
time when corporations are exerting increasing
power over people's lives and the environment,
it is vital that we work directly with companies
to promote greater responsibility.
-- Todd Larsen
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Let
the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble.
Let their crystallized voice proclaim their
injustices and demand their privileges.
Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them,
for the future of Labor is the future of
America.
-- John
L. Lewis
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"With malice toward none, with charity for
all, ...let us strive on to finish the work
we are in, ...to do all which may achieve
and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations."
-- Abraham
Lincoln
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Justice and truth are the common ties of society
-- John Locke
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The true path to peace is shared development.
If we do not want war to go global, justice
must go global
-- Lula
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Even strong as they are today, rich countries
should have no illusion: nobody is safe in
aworld of injustices.War will never bring
security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness,
intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging
denial of current hegemonies.The poor must
be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.
-- Lula
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Peace
is more important than all justice; and peace was
not made for the sake of justice, but justice for
the sake of peace.
-- Martin Luther
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