#justic

I think the first duty of society is justice. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. ↗

— Heraclitus

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Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. ↗

— William Ernest Hocking

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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. ↗

— Alveda King

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And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

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There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. ↗

— Jack Layton

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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness. ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

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The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

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