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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 "...
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 | |
"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 | |
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.” --
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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 | |
“Equal Justice
Under The Law.” That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.
-- Justice Arthur Joseph Goldberg
"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 | |
"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 |
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 | |
"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
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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.
-- Julia Ward Howe |
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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 |
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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