from Stephen L. Carter's New England White, Vintage paperback edition, page 380 and 529:
Two quotes about Justice, the first from a seasoned and hardened politician:
"Use power any way you want. Get rich. Help the poor. Whatever. The important thing is to use it and keep using it. If you leave it lying around, somebody else will pick it up. Power has to be used, or it's not real. . . . If you use it, people decide you're a powerful person, they get accustomed to doing what you want, and that gives you more power. Just don't ever start trying to use it for justice. People are real, justice is abstract. Abstract is when the killing starts."
The second is from a letter dated April 4, 1973, written by a man seeking Justice:
"President Nixon continues to duck and weave but I think he will shortly go down. . . . Justice, I beg you to remember, comes in many forms. All our lives you and I have marched for a vision of justice that is distributive rather than retributive. . . . The enemy is a bad system, not bad people. . . . Our task is not to seek further punishment but to improve the world to the best of our abilities. . . ."
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