In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.