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Silence in the face
of injustice is complicity with the opressor.
-- Ginetta Sagan | |
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"I've always had a really
developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear
that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best
dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid
off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination.
And those are the cornerstones of activism." -- Susan
Sarandon *
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye
to injustice and need. -- Susan
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Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers,
democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions
in a single multiform cause, and they will gain strength by knowing it, taking
encouragement from it, and when appropriate and opportune, pooling their efforts.
-- Jonathan Schell |
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The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part
of "all" don't you understand? ~ Patricia
Schroeder |
I am still a journeyman
actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom
and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.
-- Martin Sheen |
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"The primary threat to nature and people today
comes from centralising and monopolising power
and control. Not until diversity is made the logic
of production will there be a chance for sustainability,
justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving
diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival
imperative."
~ Vandana
Shiva
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Many
folks have asked me, ‘How do you do it and why have you sacrificed so much to
do this work? The answer comes easy. I look at my daughter and find hope in that
she is living in a world of struggle, of social and political movement. She and
the other five-year-olds will grow up in a more just, more equitable world. She
motivates me. -- Lateefah
Simon | |
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We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the
world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice. -- Sulak
Sivaraksa | "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
Peace
is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence,
confidence, justice. -- Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
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“Love
is stronger than justice.”
-- Sting |
“To
make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble,
is the highest use of life.” --
Lucy Stone *
“Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add
to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice
in all things.” -- Lucy
Stone | |
War
crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness,
all that is Godlike in man.
In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable;
there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
-- Charles Sumner
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If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote
genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet—and with it the possibility
of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically,
but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually—then, just on a practical
level, we need to have all of the religions working together." ~ Brother
Wayne Teasdale
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The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was
born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for
the promotion and protection of man’s basic rights and freedoms. The world has
come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace
can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these
rights and freedoms. -- U
Thant, Third United Nations Secretary-General, 1961-1971 |
Courage, it would
seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice,
while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that
everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that
there is always tomorrow. -- Dorothy Thompson
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We add our
voice ... to those who struggle for the recognition and protection for their rights
and cultures, because to the extent that we respect our differences, we shall
build a life with more justice.
-- Francisco Toledo |
"All who affirm
the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But
peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon
nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing
history, betraying history." -- André Trocmé
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Today,
I wish that the millions of displaced people would be able to return with the
necessary conditions of safety and dignity, that people in exile could return
to their home-country as the intelligence is needed, that cruelty, political killings,
poverty and hunger cease. I wish that our people recover their dignity, truth
is revealed and justice exists. -- Alirio
Uribe Muñoz |
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“Injustice moves me and the feeling of working efficiently for justice gives me
energy”. And in the meantime there is “a world of contrasts: the real one, where
human rights of the majority are violated; and the other one, the ideal, where
they are guaranteed to every one”.
-- Patricia Verdugo Aguirre
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An act of justice
closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own --
Marilyn Vos Savant
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In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would
link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt
for mankind. -- Lech
Walesa
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We desire peace
- and that is why we have never resorted to physical force. We crave for justice
- and that is why we are so persistent in the struggle for our rights. We seek
freedom of convictions - and that is why we have never attempted to enslave man's
conscience, nor shall we ever attempt to do so. We are fighting for the right
of the working people to association and for the dignity of human labor. We respect
the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter
future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests
and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the
moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity. -- Lech
Walesa It
is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. -- Earl Warren
"Observe good
faith and justice toward
all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all." -- George Washington
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there
were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship. -- Simone
Weil | |
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Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime
can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune
of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed
to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral
agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts
justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously
assumes the prerogative of God."
-- Theodore Weld |
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"A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice,
to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the
children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human
energy as to open a new phase in human history."
-- H. G. Wells
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“One had better die
fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” -- Ida
B. Wells | |
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the
cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing
well for the people. -- Paul
Wellstone
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“There can’t be peace in the world if there isn’t justice.” -- Barbara
Wiedner
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must
never be a time when we fail to protest. -- Elie
Wiesel | |
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“There
is no freedom without justice.” -- Simon
Wiesenthal *
My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more
secure future for our children and grandchildren. -- Simon
Wiesenthal
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“An enormous discrepancy exists between the way we talk about equality in the
abstract and the value as translated into laws and justice.” ~Roy
Wilkins |
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We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land
and say they're the same thing and say "No, we are not rolling over" and "No,
this is not a corporate enterprise." This is democracy in the fullest sense and
we must have regard and reverence and those are the cornerstones of a just society.
~ Terry
Tempest Williams |
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We have come this far always believing that justice would somehow prevail.
This is the burden, this is the promise, and THIS is why we will not
fail. -- Peter Yarrow
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I love life and
want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for
their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life
of slavery, of humiliation and
contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not
give in to the Turkish Inquisition. -- Leyla
Zana | |
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Our planet is dying - both spiritually and physically. Fear, aggression and greed,
narrow-minded national interests and immature dominance and control over others
is a common theme in most countries. However, there are more and more people who
define themselves as global citizens, who know that life is intimately interconnected,
and that we can never be fully human whilst others continue to suffer, and who
know that love, justice and nonviolence is the very essence of life. And what
gives me hope is the very many different ways in which ordinary people are taking
responsibility. They are creating the changes needed to pass beyond war and injustice,
control and dominance and towards a free, just, loving, and diverse world.
-- Angie Zelter | |
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