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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.”

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Oscar Arias

Oscar Arias is a former President of Costa Rica, born on September 13, 1940. He served as the President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in promoting peace in Central America. more

“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.”

“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.”

“Words like "freedom," "justice," "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.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“Justice from Love, and Love from Justice”

Love Justice And Love

Author:Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

“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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Author:Peter Benenson

“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.”

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Author:Daniel Berrigan

“Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.”

Should Justice Charity Replaced

Author:Norman Bethune

“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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Author:Boutros Boutros-Ghali

“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.”

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Book:The Words of César Chávez

Source: The Words of César Chávez

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