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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonme

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson

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I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy. – Jesse Jackson

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Peace
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Jesse Jackson
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I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then its put out in the media as true. – Jesse Jackson

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Health
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Jesse Jackson
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Justice & Law
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707

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Justice & Law

The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Justice & Law

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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Justice & Law

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Justice & Law

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