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"A God all mercy is a God unjust." »Edward Young
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"unjust dominion cannot be eternal." »Seneca
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"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust." »Saint Francis de Sales
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"As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause." »Jose Narosky
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"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution." »Ulysses S. Grant
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"To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown
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"We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)" »Ronald Reagan
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"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income." »Plato
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"The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful." »Anna Garlin Spencer
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"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole." »Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
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"To reprehend well is the most necessary and the hardest part of friendship. Who is it that does not sometimes merit a check, and yet how few will endure one? Yet wherein can a friend more unfold his love than in preventing dangers before their birth, or in bringing a man to safety who is travelling on the road to ruin? I grant there is a manner of reprehending which turns a benefit into an injury, and then it both strengthens error and wounds the giver. When thou chidest thy wandering friend do it secretly, in season, in love, not in the ear of a popular convention, for oftentimes the presence of a multitude makes a man take up an unjust defence, rather than fall into a just shame." »Feltham
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