#redress

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. ↗

— Lord Byron

#check #crimes #efforts #fail #had

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#conservatism #discards #future #having #makes

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#extremes #go #just #lecture #legal

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance. ↗

— Imran Khan

#balance #colonialism #deprives #fight #get

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. ↗

— George Canning

#called #existence #i #into #new

We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress. ↗

— Joseph Brant

#getting #making #out #redress #tired

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#capitol #duty #hear #house #i

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#content #easy #endeavor #glad #i

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#bearers #been #born #common #consent

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress. ↗

— Judith Martin

#expecting #face #honesty #insulting #mean