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“I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.”

Persons Doe Ideas Happens Justice Gone Attractive Murderer Vigilante

Author:Donna Leon

“The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.”

World Happens Earth Challenges Justice Share Fairs Christmas Peace On Earth Fair Share

Author:John Dominic Crossan

“To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all.”

World Matter Enough Happens Would Be Heaven Justice Late

Author:Rubin Carter

“The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.”

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Author:Aeschylus

“Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking.”

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Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“Justice seldom happens by accident.”

Happens Justice Accidents

Book:Never work for a jerk!

Source: Never work for a jerk!

“When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.”

Believe Happens Justice Prejudice Virtuous

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

“I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.”

“I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.”

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Author:Assata Shakur

“I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.”

Persons Matter Happens Action Speak Voice Justice Progress Failing Ignorance Conscious Fairs Harmony Responsible Ignorant Instant Ignored Citizenship Delay Molecules Corrections

Author:Suzy Kassem

“The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out there, being able to commit these crimes. I want them to go to prison. But if you understand this crime and you understand what happens in the reporting of this crime and the support that a victim does or does not get, you realize that our legislation increases the likelihood that a young woman will go to the police in a timely manner and that the police will investigate and that they will be able to administer real justice in the criminal system.”

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Author:Claire McCaskill

“I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting.”

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Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“We are not competing for the good when we only compete for numbers, being preoccupied with how many converts we are gaining. The true competition for good only happens when we are implementing our values of justice.”

Happens Values Justice Numbers Competition Competing Implementing

Author:Tariq Ramadan