‘I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men.’
Martin Luther King
Baptist Pastor 1929 – 1968
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“reign supreme among the children of men“
Hmm, sounds a bit like absolute power, doesn’t it?
And we know what absolute power does, especially when tempered with something as subjective as “justice”.
I’d imagine whoever left MLK lying prostrate on the blood flowing streets of his nation (James Earl Ray?) thought he was dispensing justice.
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BTW, for almost 30 years I’ve worked for an organisation called “Justice Action”.
We don’t call ourselves that because we believe we promote or dispense justice. We do so because we seek to change the Australian justice system, which currently manifests very little of what most people would call “justice”.
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