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| Potter Stewart |
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. |
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| President Richard Nixon |
But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail |
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| Reginald Heber Smith |
To withhold the equal protection of the laws, is to undermine the entire structure and threaten it with collapse.... To deny law or justice to any person is, in actual effect, to outlaw them by stripping them of their only protection.
It is for such reasons that freedom and equality of justice are essential to a democracy and that denial of justice is the short cut to anarchy. |
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| Reginald Heber Smith |
Without equal access to the law, the system not only robs the poor of their only protection, but it places it in the hands of their oppressors the most powerful and ruthless weapon ever created |
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| Robert F. Kennedy |
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope |
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| Robert F. Kennedy |
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society |
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| Robert Kennedy |
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. |
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| Robert Kennedy |
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. |
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| Roberts P. Hudson |
No organization of lawyers can long survive which has not for its primary object the protection of the public. Laws are not made for the benefit of the few. They should be those rules of conduct prescribed by the people themselves, through their properly constituted representatives, for the equal protection of the rights of society in the aggregate. They should apply with equal force to the rich and poor alike, and to the protection of those rights the legal profession must apply itself with integrity, industry and faith. |
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That's what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself, but for one's community. |
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| Saint Augustine |
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld |
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| Sam Killermann |
If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are |
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| Samuel Dash |
I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. |
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