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"I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work
for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives
an example of what every human being has it in them to do — act from love!"
-- Patch Adams
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...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving
justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or
cope without structured assistance and compassionate help.
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Mahnaz Afkhami The
end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction -- but not
the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals
of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and
moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.
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Mahnaz Afkhami |
Women, who are a
majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of
the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and
civility.
-- Mahnaz
Afkhami
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For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to
be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual
vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated
without delay.
-- Swami
Agnivesh |  |
Peace among religions
is a precondition for world peace. But religions, as religions, can never be at
peace with each other. To enable religions to be instruments for peace we need
to enable, first, religious communities to progress from religion to spirituality.
For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to
be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual
vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated
without delay. The challenge is to make “right livelihood” a universal goal. Recognizing
this value in a symbolic way through an award like this is a significant step
in the right direction. This is not, however, our journey’s end. We must not rest
until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we
love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.
-- Swami
Agnivesh Religions
have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and
progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive
to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.
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Swami Agnivesh
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"Justice, not expedience,
must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice,
and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls
from his high estate."
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"The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While
it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty,
every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral
health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death."
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John Peter Altgeld
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"No man's ambitions
(have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice."
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John Peter Altgeld
"You ask whether
a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this,
there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work
under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be
paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice."
-- John
Peter Altgeld
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"The poverty
and long suffering of farmers and indigenous peoples that I have seen has planted
in me the principle that justice must be fought for them."
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Dewi Rana Amir
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Equal
pay for women is a matter of simple justice.
-- Mary
Anderson |
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“In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country
holds dear.”
-- Kofi
Annan | "Reconciliation
should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope
for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice"
-- Corazon C. Aquino
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It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not
be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
-- Oscar
Arias Sanchez Justice
and peace can only thrive together, never apart.
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Oscar Arias Sanchez
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I cannot accept
that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe
that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.
I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things
as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path
of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.
-- Oscar
Arias Sanchez
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Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social
transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about
exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through
human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed…
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Assefa |  |
"Charity
is no substitute for justice withheld."
-- Saint Augustine
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Words like
'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary,
they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous,
and above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that
these words imply.
-- James
Baldwin
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If you
want to address racial disparity in the juvenile justice system, everybody has
to have a role in it. Everybody has some responsibility.
-- James
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"Those who today
still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International.
They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice."
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Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement
based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative
and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we
have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.
-- Medea
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Instead of building
the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political
and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred
and conflict have become the international preoccupation."
-- Daniel
Berrigan |  |
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"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it
is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy."
~ Wendell Berry
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"Charity
should be abolished; and be replaced by justice."
-- Norman Bethune
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Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience
of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those
who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies
has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse
because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty
percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement
of history.
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"When a society
is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit
of justice, can flourish."
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Leonardo Boff
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This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound
up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . .
. In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter,
to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against
them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.
-- Bono On
trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity,
it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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Militarism is no longer a synonym for patriotism. Our survival as a planet depends
on maintaining peace and justice.
-- Blasé
Bonpane |
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…the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
-- Norman
Borlaug Without
food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of
social justice are meaningless.
-- Norman
Borlaug If
you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields
to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
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Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves
the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive
change without force.
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It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set
of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems … However,
with faith and perseverance, … complex problems in the past have been resolved
in our search for justice and peace.
-- Jimmy
Carter The
law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province
of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts
and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
-- Jimmy Carter
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"If you
give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also
find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never
be alone."
-- Cesar
Chavez "I
am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is
to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice.
To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!"
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Cesar Chavez
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| What we are working
for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for
scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race
relations in these crucial days
-- Septima
Clark |  |
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If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you
can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into
doing something about it.
--
Ben Cohen
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all here in this world for some reason or another. If you're aware of injustice,
you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about
it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it. And
for me, the only thing that is a meaningful use of my life is to work to improve
the quality of life for people who are disadvantaged. I don't believe that just
because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person
is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed
through no fault of their own.
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Ben Cohen
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"The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our
grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession."
-- Norman
Cousins |
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"The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts
and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot
afford to be silent on these important issues."
~ James Cromwell
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justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that
belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters
forever."
-- Declaration of Rights for Women, July 1876
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You cannot kill the truth. You cannot kill justice. You cannot kill what we are
fighting for.
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Dominique |
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails,
and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy
to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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