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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.


Elihu Root

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DOUG PRITCHARD Good hearts are always first to cast their vote in support for right cause.
ANUJ SOMANY Delay in justice is injustice.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Delay in justice is injustice
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you ru...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by Multinational Forces is the root cause of the inse...
CAROL ROSE To delay justice, is injustice.
WILLIAM PENN We all know of course that we cannot abolish all the evils in this world by statute or by the enforc...
ELIHU ROOT Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if ...
ELIHU ROOT Men do not fail; they give up trying.
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ELIHU ROOT The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
ELIHU ROOT No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
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ELIHU ROOT There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, ...
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ELIHU ROOT Men do not fail; they give up trying
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ELIHU ROOT I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice,
GERRY ADAMS The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
BENJAMIN TUCKER Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.
THOMAS FULLER Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL We may add that it is not an act of justice but of foolish injustice to pretend the sexes are the sa...
J. BUDZISZEWSKI Confidence is the root cause of success.
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AMOS WILSON Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MARTIN LUTHER KING Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
RUSH LIMBAUGH The greatest injustice on humankind is its own idea of justice.
ALAMGEER TAHA Plant closings [and increased] labor productivity won't address the root cause of profitless prosper...
GARY LAPIDUS Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty...
TADEUSZ BOROWSKI Extreme poverty is the root cause of extreme crime.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Hunger is the root cause of all our work.
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MARC VEASEY We are really just shuffling the problem around as opposed to dealing with the root cause.
MATT AUSTIN Responsibilty is about showing the mind what is real to make oneslef honest to their cause.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
H. L. MENCKEN Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. MENCKEN Voicing out against injustice in the society is championing a just cause.
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CHRIS GAHAGAN The root of all desire is the realization of NOT HAVING IT!
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SAMANTHA POWER The investigation will continue, ... We still need to determine the root cause of the problem.
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CRISS JAMI EXPECTATION IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF UNHAPPINESS, HENCE DON'T EXPECT JUST ACCEPT !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS We are so blessed. People are coming in support and in honor of the students who lost their lives.
DEBBIE MADAR A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks...
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mut...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
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JENNIFER PALMIERI People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.
WILL ROGERS You need root strength to support whatever you grow.
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FRANK HERBERT Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice
JIM CORBETT Apathy is sustainable only as long as injustice doesn't harm us--and we don't care that it's harming...
KEN WYTSMA At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tel...
KEN WYTSMA People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities.
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