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#1

“Some women fear the fire. Some women simply become it ...”
― R.H. Sin

tags: r-h-sin

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#2

“be good to yourself
you're the only you
you'll ever get”
― R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel III

tags: hurt, love, poems, poetry, r-h-sin, whiskey-words-and-a-shovel-iii

59 likes

#3

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
― Nicholas Sparks

tags: hurt, sad, seperate, soul

4448 likes

#4

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering

2930 likes

#5

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: honesty, justice, secrecy, transparency, truth, truth-telling

1482 likes

#6

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: equity, justice, laws

1368 likes

#7

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

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#8

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

tags: justice, social-justice

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#9

“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

777 likes

#10

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: justice, love, segregation

671 likes

#11

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker

tags: inspirational, justice, mlk

665 likes

#12

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West

tags: justice, love, society, wisdom

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#13

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

tags: acquiescence, activism, free-speech, justice, principles, protest

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#14

“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine

tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society

593 likes

#15

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: clemency, forgiveness, justice, legal-system, mandatory-sentences, mercy

592 likes

#16

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: evil, injustice, justice, morality

596 likes

#17

“If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”
― David Sedaris

tags: diaries, journals, justice, privacy

492 likes

#18

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

tags: activism, justice, public-defense

513 likes

#19

“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: innocence, justice, mercy, wickedness

472 likes

#20

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence

13702 likes

#21

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge

2253 likes

#22

“But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”
― Robert Jordan

tags: justice, retribution, revenge

202 likes

#23

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

tags: crimes, criminal-justice-system, cycle-of-violence, desperation, greed, homelessness, imprisonment, incarceration, jail, justice, poverty, prison, punishment, racism, retribution, unemployment

201 likes

#24

“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.”
― Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

tags: law, society

116 likes

#25

“...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.”
― Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

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#26

“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there are basic human rights I believe that every human being has. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations says it for me. And it says there are two basic rights that can't be negotiated that government doesn't give for good behavior and doesn't take away for bad behavior. And it's the right not to be tortured and not to be killed. Because the flip side of this is that then when you say OK we're gonna turn over -- they truly have done heinous things, so now we will turn over to the government now the right to take their life. It involves other people in doing essentially the same kind of act."

(PBS Frontline: Angel on Death Row)”
― Sister Helen Prejean

tags: an-eye-for-an-eye, capital-punishment, criminal-justice, criminal-justice-system, death-penalty, death-row, executions, government, human-rights, inalienable-rights, law, right-to-life, right-to-live, torture

23 likes

#27

“A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.”
― DaShanne Stokes

54 likes

#28

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: american-revolution, constitutional-law, democracy, governance, justice, law, us-constitution

36 likes

#29

“Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.”
― DaShanne Stokes

19 likes

#30

“We have rule of lawyers, not rule of law. The legal profession has a monopoly over one branch of government as it was never intended to. The American Bar Association owns an entire branch of our government. We should not be surprised that we are the most litigious society in the world. It is big business with a stranglehold on one of the three branches of government.”
― A.E. Samaan

tags: american-bar-association, anarchy, branches-of-government, constitution, constitutional-law, constitutional-monarchy, freedom, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, litigious, litigiousness, separation-of-powers

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