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“Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?”

Should War Country Humanity Courses Peace Justice Freedom Liberty Taken Security Depends Glory Shame Safety Injustice Cruelty Consideration Resolution

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.”

Way Freedom Prove Normal Injustice Bother Expenses

Author:Albert Camus

“Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man's life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don't ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”

Easy Justice Freedom Bears Injustice Owners Justice And Injustice

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.”

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Author:Carl T. Rowan

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

“The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.”

Thinking Men Mean Use Black Realizing Freedom Steps Rights Injustice Halt Uncompromising

Book:By any means necessary

Source: By any means necessary

“In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.”

“Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.”

Law Freedom Liberty Injustice Partners Oppression Disorder Cynical Indivisible Veneer Injustice And Oppression

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!”

Ifs Men Humans Freedom Human Beings Wise Rights Injustice Deny Censorship

Author:Thomas Carlyle