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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.
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Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
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Contribution #3769
It is widely recognied in the academy that we don't need to be first causes or uncaused causers to be held responsible and have standards of right and wrong. Holding each other responsible is one important way we are caused to ehave responsibly and ethically.
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Free Inquiry
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Freedom from Free Will
Volume: Volume 30, No. 1
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Contribution #3629
Forgiveness demands not Justice and Justice demands not Forgiveness.
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Contribution #3624
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
For thousands of years of human history, utopian aspiration was ahead of economic means. But finally in the twenty-first century, technology has leapfrogged ahead of ideology. For the first time, we have the means to create a world where there is enough to go around, where oppression is not a necessary precondition to comfort. But the centuries of shortage are fresh in our memories, the rivalries and the cycles of vengeance have a life of their own, and must be soothed from our souls before we are ready for the Promised Land.
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Daily Inspiration
Josh Mitteldorf
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Peaches and Cream; May 1, 2009"
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Viewed on June 11, 2009
Contribution #3266
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.
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The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!
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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.
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So conscience for the sinner distorts the truth of the upright, but (his) soul is in agony at the judgment of the Chinvat Bridge, having strayed by his own deeds and tongue from the Path of Righteousness.
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Yasna
51:13
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Contribution #2697
We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment, so that not a soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least. And if there be (no more than) the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it (to account): and enough are We to take account.
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Koran
The Prophets
21:47
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Contribution #2696
At length, when death approaches one of you, Our angels take his soul, and they never fail in their duty. Then are men returned unto God, their Protector, the (only) reality: is not His the Command? And He is the swiftest in taking account.
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Koran
The Cattle
6:61-62
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Contribution #2695
God is swift in calling to account.
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Koran
The Family of Imran
3:19
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Contribution #2693
And there are men who say: ‘Our Lord! give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter, and defend us from the torment on the fire!’ To these will be allotted what they have earned, and God is quick in account.
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Koran
The Cow
2:201-202
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Contribution #2690
The person who sins, he alone shall die. A child shall not share the burden of a parent’s guilt, nor shall a parent share the burden of a child’s guilt; the righteousness of the righteous shall be accounted to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him alone, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be accounted to him alone.
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Tanakh
Ezekiel
18:20
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Contribution #2687
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
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Bible
Matthew
12: 36-37
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Contribution #2684
These injunctions are not contradictory, for whosoever must be punished for the crimes which he has committed, suffers his injury not through the ill-will of the judge but on account of his evildoing. His own acts have brought upon him the injury that the executor of the law inflicts. When a magistrate punishes, let him not harbor hatred in his breast, yet a murderer, when put to death, should consider that this is the fruit of his own act.
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Gospel of the Buddha
Shimhas Question
para. 9
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Contribution #2683
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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July 12, 1880
Contribution #2635
The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal – to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can’t end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.
I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago’s South Side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair. I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder -- alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware -- is inadequate to the task. I know that the hardening of lines, the embrace of fundamentalism and tribe, dooms us all.
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Dreams of My Father
Page Preface
Published in 2004
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Contribution #2529
The teenagers and college students who left their homes to march in the streets of Birmingham and Montgomery; the mothers who walked instead of taking the bus after a long day of doing somebody else's laundry and cleaning somebody else's kitchen — they didn't brave fire hoses and Billy clubs so that their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren would still wonder at the beginning of the 21st century whether their vote would be counted; whether their civil rights would be protected by their government; whether justice would be equal and opportunity would be theirs. . . . We have more work to do.
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Speech at Howard University, September 28, 2007
Contribution #2520
When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
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Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
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Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
Contribution #2446
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Justice should not serve to avenge people. It should serve to prevent crime and protect the public, by intimidating or incarcerating those who are a menace to others except under threat or behind bars. It should never push the severity of this mandate to the point of cruelty, in which case it would be a perversion of justice, an ominous sign of barbarity.
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 62
Published by Citadel Press
, NY
, 1958
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Contribution #2147
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
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Essay on Tolerance
Contribution #2080
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
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If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law.
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For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
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Bible
Jeremiah
7:5-7
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Contribution #1907
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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Isaiah
1:17
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Contribution #1906
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
Published in 1707
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Contribution #1235
Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.
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Freedom and its Fundamentals
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Contribution #1234
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
--Judge Learned Hand in The Great Judge
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The Great Judge
by P. Hamburger
Published in 1946
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Contribution #1233
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Contribution #1232
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.
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Freedom and Its Fundamentals
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Contribution #1135
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
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The Great Judge
by P. Hamburger
Published in 1946
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Contribution #1134
It is the spirit and not the law that keeps justice alive.
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History says, Don’t hope on this side of the
grave. But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can
rise up, and hope and history rhyme.
All things…call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to
listen, they want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of
being…. But we can give it to them only through the love that
listens.
Living well is the best revenge.
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He who decides a case
without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered
just.
Justice is the
insurance which we have on our lives and property, and obedience is the premium
which we pay for it.
Justice and power
must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and
whatever is powerful may be just.
I'm armed with more than complete steel,--
The justice of my quarrel.
Justice, being
destroyed, will destroy; being preserved, will preserve.
To no man will we
sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice.
[Lat., Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus aut
differemus, rectum au justitiam.]
No free man shall be
taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed or exiled, or in any way
destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful
judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.
Moderation is the
basis of justice.
Injustice anywhere is
a threat to justice everywhere.
Justice is the soul
of the universe.
Until the great mass
of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's
welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Justice is
indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be
limited, uniform, and distinct.
Justice, though
moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their
flight.
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
Justice is but the
distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.
Justice without
wisdom is impossible.
Pity and forbearance
should characterize all acts of justice.
Justice is the great
end of civil society.
Above all other
things is justice: success is a good thing; wealth is good also; honor is
better; but justice excels them all.
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
Peace and justice are
two sides of the same coin.
Justice is truth in
action.
All religion and all
ethics are summed up in justice.
Justice is like the
north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.
Let us remember that
justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Justice extorts no
reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.
Justice renders to
every one his due.
Justice is the bread
of the nation; it is always hungry for it.
Justice is itself the
great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it,
under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
The virtue of justice
consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Justice is a certain
rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances
confronting him.
The only
true principle for humanity is justice, and justice towards the feeble becomes necessarily
protection or kindness.
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Contribution #759
What does the Lord require of us? To seek justice. To love kindness. To walk humbly with our God.
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Bible
Micah 6:8
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Contribution #743
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
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Confucius
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Contribution #655
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Michel Foucault
Viewed on April 13, 2008
Contribution #648
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Viewed on April 13, 2008
Contribution #647
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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What does justice look like in a person?
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