Best Redress Quotes
54 Redress quotes by 52 unique authors
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No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may…
— William Wilberforce
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What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the…
— Wilfrid Laurier
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That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed…
— Lewis Nkosi
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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for…
— Marc Rotenberg
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Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to…
— George Washington
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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Things past redress are now with me past care
— William Shakespeare
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REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
— Georges Braque
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rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.
— John J. McCloy
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It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him,…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in…
— Emma Goldman
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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
— Harold H. Greene
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
— Judith Martin
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A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
— Thomas Francis Meagher
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People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or…
— Jesse Ventura
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were…
— Naomi Wolf
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Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and…
— Margaret Heffernan
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Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by…
— Milan Kundera
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they…
— Shereen El Feki
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It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced…
— Jay Alan Sekulow
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