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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: injustice
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: anger, azkaban, harry-potter, justice, murder, revenge, sirius-black, wormtail
    1716 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: equity, justice, laws
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Do not seek revenge and call it justice.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: tessa-gray
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    Voltaire
    “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
    ― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes
    tags: condemnation, guilt, innocence, judgment, justice, mercy, reasonable-doubt, verdict
    789 likes

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    Theodore Parker
    “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
    ― Theodore Parker
    tags: inspirational, justice, mlk
    665 likes

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  • #7
    “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
    ― Cornel West
    tags: justice, love, society, wisdom
    661 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: clemency, forgiveness, justice, legal-system, mandatory-sentences, mercy
    599 likes

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    Confucius
    “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects
    tags: disgrace, honor, justice, society, wealth
    412 likes

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    Paul Kalanithi
    “The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.”
    ― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: capital-punishment, crime, death, justice, punishment
    269 likes

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    William Penn
    “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
    ― William Penn
    tags: justice
    264 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
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    Montesquieu
    “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
    ― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
    tags: criminal-justice, criminal-justice-system, injustice
    227 likes

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    Dorothy Day
    “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
    ― Dorothy Day
    tags: problems, social-justice, society
    196 likes

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    Isaiah Berlin
    “Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
    ― Isaiah Berlin
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    William Gaddis
    “Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
    ― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own
    tags: justice, law
    197 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: fairness, goodness, justice
    180 likes

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    A.W. Tozer
    “Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.”
    ― A.W. Tozer
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: evil, justice, means-justifying-the-ends, society
    116 likes

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    Euripides
    “In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
    ― Euripides, The Children of Herakles
    tags: disagreements, dissent, due-process, fairness, impartiality, judgment, justice
    132 likes

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    Gail Carson Levine
    “Who judges the judge who judges wrong?”
    ― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest
    tags: aza, justice
    109 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: justice
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War 1942-49
    tags: civil-disobedience, justice, non-violence, war
    106 likes

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    Sun Tzu
    “Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine”
    ― Sun Tzu
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Aristotle
    “The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle
    108 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: sherlock-holmes
    87 likes

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    Alexander Hamilton
    “Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”
    ― Alexander Hamilton
    tags: constraints, government, human-beings, human-nature, justice, mankind, passion, reason
    92 likes

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    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
    2756 likes



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