what are some famouse african american quotes on justice?
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Here is a couple said by Thurgood Marshall: 1. "A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi--born to the dumbest, poorest sharecropper--by merely drawing its first breath in the democracy has exactly the same right as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it's not a goal worth working for." 2.Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. Martin Luther King: 1."Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." 2. "Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love."\n\n Rosa Parks: "I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people."
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‘’Be very careful if you make a woman cry, Because God counts her tears, the woman came out of the mans rib, not from his feet to be walked on; not from his head to be superior, but from the side to be his equal, under his arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.’‘\n\nYou will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond\n\nPeople in Life who are the happiest don’t have the best of everything....\nThey make the best of everything they have.\n\n"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." \n- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. \n\nSomewhere there’s’ someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presense that life is worthwhile, So when you are lonely, remember its true, Somebody Somewhere is thinking of you.\n\nIt's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. \n\n"Grass may look greener on the other side, but in reality, its the same shade of green, just a different cut. But there are times when change must happen and we are to MAKE THE BEST OF IT !!!!!!"
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"If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible." --  Bernard Mannes Baruch\n\n\n"Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." -  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Let's first see what wisdom Andy Jackson left for us...\n\n"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."\n\n"That book [Bible], sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."\n\n"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."\n\n"One man with courage makes a majority."\n\n"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."\n\n"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.\n\n"Never take counsel of your fears."\n\nI think he'd say good things about Bush, based on his thoughts.
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man... it's a lot of quotes...\nlike when ms sophia said "all my life i had to fight... i loves harpo.. yes i's do... but i'll kill em dead....."\n\nthen when ms celi said "everything you done to me already done to you".... "i may be poor, black, i may even be ugly... but dear God... i'm here".... "til you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble"\n\nsuge avery "i's married now".... "you sho is ugly!!!"
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"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security"\n- ben franklin\n\nguess.
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Try: www.quotationspage.com
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quote:\n\nthe so called criminal justice system is the worse crime in america. for alot of reasons\n.....\n\nfor example???.. dont you love it when people say something stupid.. and dont even have the courtesy to expound on it.. ??\n\n\nwell sure.. lets just let all the killers out of their cells.. sex offenders?.. lets just drop them off at the nearest playground.... jeez.. \n\nback to the initial question now that its out of my system...\n\nno its not right to send an innocent man to prison.. but.. no ..its not a poor vs rich issue either.. not only does the US government pay for the lawyers .. they pay for the lawyers who try to keep you out of prison.. isnt that funny?..\n\n>>your brother.. if in fact innocent.. has many options to pursue here. legal aide is available to anyone.. the government lets you appeal cases all the time. over and freaking over.. spending large amounts of money and court time....\n\n>>bottom line sir.. i dont buy your story.. its either fictional or there are some other factors involved...\n\nother factors involved.. i just did a post on this .. from another question.. \n\nrarely are people innocent for anything.. contrary to belief.. police dont just pick someone out of crowd and say "hes the murderer".. your brother almost certainly was involved in something that you are failing to meniton or are not aware of.. i stake my reputation on that... \n\ni have sympathy for you.. but i dont for your brother.. \n\nif in fact that he is innocent.. and is released upon an appeal.. there is a crime commited here.. you are correct.. its called "wrongful prosectuion".. which is generally settled through monetary means.. police and states attorneys are not going to be sent to jail for doing there job.. sorry to disapoint you.. \n\nbut im sorry to say that it is 99% unlikely that he is not guilty.. \n\ni think your scenario is fictional because you are leaving out some key details.. \n\njury.. ?.. murderers are tried by 12 carefully selected peers and agreed upon by both the prosecution and the defense teams.. \n\na jury has to unanomously agree in guilt or innocence.. which goes back to my point about this scenario being highly unlikely.. \n\nif the story is true.. however.. i think you are a naiive young man to believe your brothers absolute and total innocence.. but i admire you for it nevertheless.. my sister would sell me out for a nickel..\n\n-----\ntattydragon.. just guessing.. but im willing to bet you have been on the wrong side of the law once or twice.. you protest too much..
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hehehehe.....\n\n"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by the majority"\n\nLord Byron
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I define justice as when someone is caught and convicted of the crimes in which they commited to society.
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I have a few quotes that I really like.\n\n"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"  Elenor Roosevelt\n\n"Presence is more than just being there"  Malcolm Forbes\n\n"The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional."  John Powell\n\n\nHope these are helpful!  Congrats, and Good Luck
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"Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records." -William A. Ward\n\n"We are judges by what we finish, not by what we start." -Anonymous\n\n"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers." - Brian Tracy\n\n"You get out in front--You stay out in front." -A.J. Foyt
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"i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident;that all men are created equal."\nBy Martin Luther King\nI'm sorry its not in my own words, but that's what the American dream is to me equality for all, whites, blacks, Hispanics,legal or illegal, we are all human i just wish everyone could see that, a piece paper does not define the value of a person.Racism, hate, war, and prejudice is not the answer.
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.\n\nFive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.\n\nBut one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.\n\nIn a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."\n\nBut we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.\n\nWe have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.\n\nIt would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.\n\nBut there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.\n\nThe marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here
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Innocent until proven guilty.\nSeparation of church and state.\nOne man, one vote.\nWith justice and liberty for all.
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Here is the widsom of Dr.King on Affimative Action\n\n"Whenever this issue compensatory treatment is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but should ask for nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the second would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up." \n"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis." \n"... for 15 centuries the Negro was enslaved and robbed of any wages — potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid wages plus accumulated interest. In any case, I do not intend that this program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro: it should benefit the disadvantaged of all races." \n\n\nHere what he said about America\n"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."
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LMAO,oh and another is," Someday I will be the first black president".Remember him saying that one?