We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
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There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
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The old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind.
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.
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