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“I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.”

People Believe Lasts Law Church Absolutes Sacraments Resorts Sanctions Depriving

Author:Roger Mahony

“Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.”

Law Justice Subjects Prejudice Resorts Mistress Whim Fickle

Book:Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

“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.”

People Men Giving Mean Government Happens Law Justice Color Skins Justified Resorts

Author:Malcolm X

“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.”

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source: The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure

“Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.”

Lasts Law Court Our Society Resorts Stubbornness

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty