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“Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.”

Done Life Is Easy Justice Liberty Inspirational Life Mets Obligation Work To Be Done

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.”

Mind Law Choices Easy Justice Courageous Law And Justice

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.”

Easy Justice Inclination

Book:Henrietta

Source: Henrietta

“I don't bother writing about Fox News. It is too easy. What I talk about are the liberal intellectuals, the ones who portray themselves and perceive themselves as challenging power, as courageous, as standing up for truth and justice. They are basically the guardians of the faith. They set the limits. They tell us how far we can go. They say, 'Look how courageous I am.' But do not go one millimeter beyond that. At least for the educated sectors, they are the most dangerous in supporting power.”

Writing Looks Easy Challenges Justice Dangerous Limits News Standing Educated Bother Perceive Courageous Foxes Guardian Fox News Truth And Justice

Book:Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force

Source: Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force

“The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.”

Speak Easy Justice Court Slogans Subtlety Scapegoat

Author:Rose Bird

“I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.”

Should Different Easy Justice Court Sorry Proceeding

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.”

Men May Matter Easy Justice Common Kindness Regard Grateful Bottom Wit Borders Injury Why Not Excess Righteous Screws Good Will Screw Ups Ingratitude Mischievous Common Things

Author:Seneca the Younger

“In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.”

Today Found Easy Justice Guilt Former Innocence Assumption

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.”

“The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.”