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"If laws are unjust, they
must be continually broken until they are altered."
-- Josephine
Ruffin |
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up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.
-- Cindy
Sheehan |  |
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"As
citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and
the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."
-- Adlai
Stevenson |
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This
question of whether violence or law shall prevail between states is the most vital
of the problems of our eventful era, and the most serious in its repercussions.
The beneficial result of a secure world peace are almost inconceivable, but even
more inconceivable are the consequences of the threatening world war which many
misguided people are prepared to precipitate. The advocates of pacifism are well
aware how meager are their resources of personal influence and power. They know
that they are still few in number and weak in authority, but when they realistically
consider themselves and the ideal they serve, they see themselves as the servants
of the greatest of all causes.
-- Bertha von Suttner |  |
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"The
greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement
of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.”
~ Mary Burnett Talbert
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| "World
federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under
a just world order. The heart of their program - a world under law - is realistic
and attainable."
~ U
Thant |
"A federation of all
humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health,
education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into
the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a
new phase in human history."
-- H.G. Wells
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The
shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise
see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
-- Walt
Whitman
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“I
hope people will not think we are encouraging people to break the law. But our
actions should teach people, and children, to scrutinize laws against human life,
and they should be broken to prove a point.”
-- Barbara Wiedner
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