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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 |
"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 |
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 There
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 | |
"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.
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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."
-- Frederik
W. de Klerk |
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Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop
a more just society. -- Yuri
Kochiyama | |
"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
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 | 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
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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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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