#justic

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. ↗

— Hesiod

#evil #her #justice #kings #path

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#civil #civil rights #columbia #district #district of columbia

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#forget #forth #freedom #fun #have fun

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#breaking #destroying #devised #different #down

As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#certain #dispute #disputed #edition #either

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#before #blind #deaf #decide #explain

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#advantage #behind #child #congress #created

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#agree #civilization #justice #moral #must

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. ↗

— George Washington

#all nations #cultivate #faith #good #good faith