JUSTICE
QUOTES
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"I want to live in a world where people
become famous because of their work for
peace and justice and care. I want the famous
to be inspiring; their lives an example
of what every human being has it in them
to do — act from love!"
-- Patch
Adams
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...Any definition of a culture of peace must
address the problem of achieving justice for
communities and individuals who do not have
the means to compete or cope without structured
assistance and compassionate help.
-- Mahnaz
Afkhami
The
end of the Cold War removed the immediate
causes of whole destruction -- but not the
threat contained in our knowledge. We must
tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice,
caring, and compassion summoned from our common
human spiritual and moral heritage, if we
are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first
century.
-- Mahnaz
Afkhami
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Women,
who are a majority of the peoples of the earth,
are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind
of social capital that is conducive to development,
peace, justice and civility.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami
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For the world order to be one of peace and
justice, for the global village to be a theater
of right livelihood, it is imperative that
a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate
to the challenges of the emerging world order
be enunciated without delay.
-- Swami
Agnivesh
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Peace
among religions is a precondition for world peace.
But religions, as religions, can never be at peace
with each other. To enable religions to be instruments
for peace we need to enable, first, religious communities
to progress from religion to spirituality. For the
world order to be one of peace and justice, for
the global village to be a theater of right livelihood,
it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual
vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging
world order be enunciated without delay. The challenge
is to make “right livelihood” a universal goal.
Recognizing this value in a symbolic way through
an award like this is a significant step in the
right direction. This is not, however, our journey’s
end. We must not rest until right livelihood is
within reach of every human being upon this earth
we love and cherish. We all have a role to play
in achieving this goal.
-- Swami Agnivesh
Religions
have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to
our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend
to make us meaner rather than better human beings,
less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion
and fellow humanity in our times.
-- Swami Agnivesh
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"Justice,
not expedience, must be the guiding light.
The orator must fix his eye on the polestar
of justice, and plough straight thither. The
moment he glances toward expediency, he falls
from his high estate."
-- John Peter
Altgeld
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"The doctrine that might makes right has covered
the earth with misery. While it crushes the
weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit,
every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner
or later and crushes its author. Justice is
moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is
moral disease, bringing mortal death."
-- John Peter
Altgeld
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"No
man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way
of performing a simple act of justice."
-- John Peter Altgeld
"You
ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages
as man when she does the same work? To this, there
can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity
and quality of work under the same conditions as
a man, simple justice requires that she should be
paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny
her justice."
-- John Peter Altgeld
"The
poverty and long suffering of farmers and
indigenous peoples that I have seen has planted
in me the principle that justice must be fought
for them."
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Dewi Rana Amir
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Equal
pay for women is a matter of simple justice.
-- Mary
Anderson
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“In the rush for justice it is important not
to lose sight of principles the country holds
dear.”
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"Reconciliation
should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will
not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't
be peace at any cost but peace based on principle,
on justice"
-- Corazon C. Aquino
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It is essential that justice be done, and
it is equally vital that justice not be confused
with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
-- Oscar Arias
Sanchez
Justice
and peace can only thrive together, never
apart.
--
Oscar Arias
Sanchez
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I
cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate
misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that
the hungry man should be treated as subversive for
expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that
the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep
things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas
of a different world. Law is the path of liberty,
and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.
-- Oscar Arias Sanchez
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Mediation and reconciliation work is about
a profound quest for justice and social transformation.
But at the same time, they are about service,
solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering
the human spirit that has been lost or shattered
through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance
and greed…
-- Hizkias
Assefa
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"Charity
is no substitute for justice withheld."
-- Saint Augustine
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Words
like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy'
are not common concepts; on the contrary,
they are rare. People are not born knowing
what these are. It takes enormous, and above
all, individual effort to arrive at the respect
for other people that these words imply.
-- James Baldwin
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If
you want to address racial disparity in the
juvenile justice system, everybody has to have
a role in it. Everybody has some responsibility.
-- James Bell
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"Those
who today still feel a sense of impotence
can do something: they can support Amnesty
International. They can help it to stand up
for freedom and justice."
-- Peter
Benenson
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Changing the structure and rules of the
global economy will require a mass movement
based on messages of compassion, justice,
and equality, as well as collaborative and
democratic processes ... If we stay positive,
inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly
historic opportunity to build a global movement
for social justice.
-- Medea
Benjamin
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices
like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political
and economic servitude, we spend a trillion
dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and
conflict have become the international preoccupation."
-- Daniel Berrigan
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"Rats and roaches live by competition under
the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege
of human beings to live under the laws of
justice and mercy."
~ Wendell
Berry
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"Charity
should be abolished; and be replaced by justice."
-- Norman Bethune
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Today social justice represents one of the
most serious challenges to the conscience
of the world. The abyss between those who
are within the world 'order' and those who
are excluded is widening day by day. The use
of leading-edge technologies has made it possible
to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic
but perverse because it is unjustly distributed.
Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty
percent of all means of life. That fact creates
a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.
-- Leonardo Boff
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"When
a society is organized around that which is fitting
in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice,
can flourish."
--
Leonardo Boff
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This is not about charity, it's about justice...
The war against terror is bound up in the
war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin
Powell said that . . . In these disturbing
and distressing times, surely it's cheaper,
and smarter, to make friends out of potential
enemies than it is to defend yourself against
them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.
-- Bono
On
trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling.
Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about
justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice
is an unstoppable idea.
-- Bono
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Militarism is no longer a synonym for patriotism.
Our survival as a planet depends on maintaining
peace and justice.
-- Blasé Bonpane
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…the first essential component of social justice
is adequate food for all mankind. Food is
the moral right of all who are born into this
world.
-- Norman
Borlaug
Without
food, man can live at most but a few weeks;
without it, all other components of social
justice are meaningless.
-- Norman
Borlaug
If
you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at
the same time cultivate the fields to produce
more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
-- Norman
Borlaug
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Democracy is an objective. Democratization is
a process. Democratization serves the cause
of peace because it offers the possibility of
justice and of progressive change without force.
-- Boutros
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I
believe that careful stewardship of a culture
is our best strategy for bringing about social
justice.
-- Shannon Cain
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It would be naïve to think that peace and
justice can be achieved easily. No set of
rules or study of history will automatically
resolve the problems … However, with faith
and perseverance, … complex problems in the
past have been resolved in our search for
justice and peace.
-- Jimmy Carter
The
law is not the private property of lawyers,
nor is justice the exclusive province of judges
and juries. In the final analysis, true justice
is not a matter of courts and law books, but
of a commitment in each of us to liberty and
mutual respect.
-- Jimmy Carter
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"If
you give yourself totally to the nonviolence
struggle for peace and justice you also find
that people give you their hearts and you
will never go hungry and never be alone."
-- Cesar Chavez
"I
am convinced that the truest act of courage,
the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice
ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent
struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer
for others. God help us to be men!"
--
Cesar Chavez
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What we are working for is an educational
program that has become a resource and rallying
point for scores of brave southerners who
are leading the fight for justice and better
race relations in these crucial days
-- Septima
Clark
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If you're aware of injustice, you can either
ignore it, say there is nothing you can do
about it, complain about it and not do anything,
or put your energies into doing something
about it.
--
Ben Cohen
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We're
all here in this world for some reason or another.
If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore
it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain
about it and not do anything, or put your energies
into doing something about it. And for me, the only
thing that is a meaningful use of my life is to
work to improve the quality of life for people who
are disadvantaged. I don't believe that just because
one person is born on one side of some imaginary
line and another person is born on the other side
means that a lot of people should be getting screwed
through no fault of their own.
--
Ben Cohen
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"The conquest of war and the pursuit of
social justice... must become our grand preoccupation
and magnificent obsession."
-- Norman Cousins |
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"The risks of transporting deadly nuclear
waste, the environmental justice impacts and
the long-term health effects of both these
projects are untenable...We cannot afford
to be silent on these important issues."
~ James Cromwell
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"We
ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the
civil and political rights that belong to citizens
of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our
daughters forever."
-- Declaration of Rights for Women, July 1876
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You cannot kill the truth. You cannot kill
justice. You cannot kill what we are fighting
for.
-- Jean
Dominique
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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.
-- Frederick
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