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Power, Justice and Mercy Quotes (3)
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"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music" Groucho Marx: American comedian, actor and singer, 1890-1977
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens": Plato: Ancient Greek philosopher (428/427- 348/347 B.C.)
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931- ), Nobel Prize for Peace 1984
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“If, while there is yet time, we turn to Justice and obey her, if we trust Liberty and follow her, the dangers that now threaten must disappear, the forces that now menace will turn to agencies of elevation. Think of the powers now wasted; of the infinite fields of knowledge yet to be explored; of the possibilities of which the wondrous inventions of this century give us but a hint with want destroyed, with greed changed to noble passions, with the fraternity that is born of equality taking the place of the jealousy and fear that now array men against each other, with mental power loosened by conditions which give to the humblest comfort and leisure; who shall measure the heights to which our civilization may soar?” Henry George (1839-1897)
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“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” St. Augustine
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“Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.” Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950
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“Iniquity, committed in this world, produces not fruit immediately, but, like the earth, in due season, and advancing by little and little, it eradicates the man who committed it. Justice, being destroyed, will destroy; being preserved, will preserve; it must never therefore be violated.” Manu 1200 BC
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“I will be harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.” William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” Martin Luther King, Jr
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“It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.” Thomas Jefferson
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“It is sheer folly to expect justice from the unprincipled.” Proverb
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“Much law, but little justice.” Proverb
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“Where might is master, justice is servant.” Proverb
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“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
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“Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
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“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.” Plato, Ancient Greek philosopher (428/427-348/347 B.C.)
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“Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang” Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 (B 11:16-7)
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“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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“Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.” Bruce “Utah” Phillips Biography, songwriter, storyteller, humorist, philosopher, 1935
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“Maybe the greatest sin is neither of these two ancient ones [the lust for power and hubris]; the greatest sin may be the new twentieth-century sin of indifference.” Peter Drucker, from Adventures of a Bystander, John Wiley and Sons, 1994
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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” Eleanor Roosevelt