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Random quote of the day:

“Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.”

—Reverend Bernice B. King, The Atlantic, March 1, 2018

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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“An act of violence against any innocent person eludes martial and moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality and racial inequality, undermines the blood our ancestors’ spilled as they turned the other cheek, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.”

—Benjamin Crump, “Statement from the Brown Family Attorneys,” March 12, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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“I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can—and must—always be a force for that which is right.”

—Eric Holder, Statement by the President and Attorney General Eric Holder, September 24, 2014

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“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

―Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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“To ignore injustices such as the few we address in the film [You Can’t Hear Me] simply because they may not seem to affect you directly right now, is to leave yourself unprepared when their effects show up at your front door. That’s the awareness we want to continue to bring to light as we stand in solidarity with activists and the politicians who really are doing their work for the people.”

—Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Huffpost, May 2, 2017

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“Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations.”

―Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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“Justice is what love looks like in public.”

—Cornel West, Brother West

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“The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.”

—Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

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Years ago I heard that Abraham Lincoln freed the colored people, but it didn’t amount to a hill of beans.”

—Ned Cobb (aka Nate Shaw), Alabama sharecropper, quoted in All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten, 1974

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“If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.”

—Stephen Fry, Paperweight

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Random quote of the day:

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”

—Georges Clemenceau, quoted in The Unlawful Concert by Fred Gardner

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”

—Georges Clemenceau, quoted in The Unlawful Concert by Fred Gardner

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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“The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.”

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 78 (tr. J. W. Willis Bund)

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.”

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 78 (tr. J. W. Willis Bund)

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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“Every human life includes moments of rage at unrecognition. We’re all injustice collectors.”

—Jonathan Lethem, The Paris Review, Summer 2003, No. 166

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.”

—George Bernard Shaw, “The Revolutionist’s Handbook and Pocket Companion,” Man and Superman