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Justice / Equality

Δικαιοσύνη/Ισότητα

Explore people, quotes, book excerpts, paintings and proverbs connected with the theme of Justice / Equality.

All People (25) Quotes (30) Excerpts (7) Poems (3)

People

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Quotes

Selected words connected with this theme.
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“Our Democracy destroys itself because it has abused the right to freedom and equality, because has learned the citizens to consider the insolence as right, illegality as freedom, the impudence of speech as equality and anarchy as bliss.”
Isokratis
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“Later, in a more perfect society, someone else made just like me is certain to appear and act freely.”
Cavafy
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“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. ”
Sandburg Carl
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“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Marley Bob
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“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings”
Mandela Nelson
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“Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”
Fitzgerald Ella
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.”
Frida
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“Dancing is just an expression of what is in your soul, the movements that you make are almost automatic based on that. Lola Flores quote. ”
Flores Lola
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“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”
Eco Umberto
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“We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression. ”
Skinner
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“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
Rogers Carl
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“The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. ”
Fourier Charles
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“there are days ahead, Days to be fulfilled With just a soft, soft wind Filling the space of dreams. ”
Seng Goh-Poh
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“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Apollinaire
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“Blessed is the famous flaw that saves us from the abominable perfection ”
Jimenez Juan
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“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these arts. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts, every act is an art.”
Vallejo Cesar
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“You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not. ”
Mernissi Fatima
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“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
Verne Jules
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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Kerouac Jack
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“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. ”
Trotsky Leon
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“The first and fundamental law of Nature is to seek peace and follow it.”
Hobbes
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“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
Kant Immanuel
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“Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.”
Robespierre
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“Those who consider weak the people mastered by their passions are like that crazy doctor who named a man to be fool just because he had seen him suffering of fever.”
Foscolo,
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“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ”
Camus Albert
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“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel! ”
Remarque
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“Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men”
Lumumba Patrice

Book Excerpts

Selected passages from books connected with this theme.

Antigone

Sophocles
Love, unconquerable Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure Immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in h …

Blindness

Saramago
“Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adje …

A World Upside Down

Galeano · 1998
(selected excerpts) A bridge with no river. Tall building façades with nothing behind them. The gardener waters the plastic grass. Escalators that lead nowhere. The highway that gives us the chance to discover pl …

July’s People

Gordimer Nadine
The first Chapter. You like to have some cup of tea? — July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind. The knock on the door. Seven o’clock. In governors’residences,co …

Antigone

Sophocles
ANTIGONE: (715-725) O tomb, vaulted bride-bed in eternal rock, Soon I shall be with my own again Where Persephone welcome the thin ghost underground: And I shall see my father again, and you, mother, And dearest …

A Doll's House

Ibsen · 1879
*Excerpt from Act Three* **NORA:** I must stand on my own feet if I am ever to understand myself and the world around me. That is why I can no longer stay with you. **HELMER:** Nora! Nora! **NORA:** I am leaving …

The Genius Of The Crowd

Bukowski Charles · 1966
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who pre …

Poems

Selected poems connected with this theme.