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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel

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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal

Justice Tyrannical Powerless Force Without

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good Communication Good And Evil Words Innocent Evil Become Potent Combine Powerless Knows How Dictionary Hands Them Standing Who

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. Lysander Spooner

Government Constitution Has-Been One Thing Case Prevent Had Powerless Another Been Exist Authorized Unfit Whether Either Much Really Certain Thing

The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits. Molly Ivins

People Benefits Trouble Employees Down Cost Scary Blaming Point Factories Miss Powerful Powerless Although Because Does Contract Get Any Decide Poor Poor People Use Less Nearly Shut

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Chief Seattle

Alone Man Memory People Will Men Myth Become White Earth Tribe Kindly Shall Never Red Invisible Powerless Dead Him Perished Deal His Shores Just Among Last

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire

Conflict Side Neutral Powerful Between Powerless Hands Means Washing

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. David Whyte

Honesty Honesty Is Humiliation Admitting Humility Indeed Exactly Powerless Where Grounded

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. Molly Ivins

Satire Weapon Powerful Powerless Against

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 no process that promises redress. Margaret Heffernan

Bullying Promises Positions Complain Way Those Corrupt About Bosses Powerless Safe Safe Way Redress Process Co-Workers

The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture. Azim Premji

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. Gerard De Nerval

Panic implies that there is no rational thought taking place. That we are frozen and incapable of adjusting. Powerless to logic, and subject to seemingly unthinkable behavior. Anthony Scaramucci

Behavior Thought Panic Adjusting Logic Seemingly Rational Taking Implies Unthinkable Powerless Subject Frozen Place Incapable

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe. Henri Nouwen

Experience Anxiety Fear Society Increased Despair Our Indeed Ways Giants Paradox Threatening More Proportion Feel Powerful Powerless Equal Western Western Society New-Born Showing Even Ever Technological Muscles Babe

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. Molly Ivins

Satire Only Cruel Powerless Vulgar

Excessive fear is always powerless. Aeschylus

Fear Excessive Powerless Always

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. Eric Clapton

You Control Something Risk Over Powerless Trying

For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out. Greg Boyle

Those Out More Bear Over Powerless Industries Years Than Burdens Poor Stand Stands Twenty Chosen Whose Margins

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. Josiah Warren

Corruption Natural Money Value Cruelty Medium Finally Fraud Degrees Tendency Crushing Powerless Masses Render Built Imposition Sweep Natural Tendency Use Lessen Iniquity Away Consequently

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. Oscar Wilde

Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons were imprisoned by the army with no hope of release - made me think about how I would feel if someone took my brothers from me. Sabaa Tahir

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