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Quotes About Restitution

Americans, they'll have a legal means to recover
~ Nelson DeMille
MAKING AMENDS "You are late," said Nasuada as Eragon and Angela found
~ Christopher Paolini
desire to rectify all injustice that I may have done to individuals
~ Ulysses S. Grant
he was unshakably determined to demand of anyone or anything that wanted to force him to live, whoever and whatever they might be - his grandfather, fate, hell - the restitution of his lost Eden. He did not hide the obstacles from himself.
~ Victor Hugo
He takes what he wants and then gives us back what is already ours.
~ James A. Michener
If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
~ Standing Bear
A fault confessed is half redressed.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Si arrojas un jarrón al suelo, sus pedazos no volverán a unirse cuando tú desaparezcas. El mal que hacemos no puede ser deshecho; solo podemos tratar de compensarlo de alguna manera.
~ Laura Gallego García
A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.
~ Lee Scott
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
~ Charles Rangel
When you screw someone's life, the least you can do is leave the person alone.
~ Chetan Bhagat
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
~ Lawana Blackwell
Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
~ le guin ursula k vii
For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them a chance to seek justice.
~ Ted Deutch
This country was created from stolen land and stolen labor. And from a moral perspective, but also from a practical one, everybody knows that when you steal, you're always looking over your shoulder because you know that somebody may steal it back.
~ Alicia Garza
Certainly no university president, at least to my knowledge, has ever stood up and said 'this land is unceded, meaning it's not ours, so we're going to give some of it back.'
~ Neil Macdonald
God has made himself known by personally approaching human beings and involving himself in their lives. The history is there for all who wish to see. But no one has to see—now. That is how the divine conspiracy works. With this God in view, the prophetic witness relentlessly speaks, with absolute assurance, of "the times of the restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21).
~ Dallas Willard
Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.
~ Daniel Handler
Where's my money? I'm very angry because I believe I am owed some money which you are preventing me from obtaining
~ Daniel Handler
the law seeks, as it were, an end in symbolism, but does not offer any means of allowing citizens to address what was actually done to whom, by whom and why.
~ Helen Graham
proposed as appropriate compensation. This reminds me
~ Jared Diamond
We will strengthen crackdown on illegal renovations and enforce a restitution of large-scale development gains to better stabilize the real estate market.
~ Park Won-soon
Because you're trying to take something away from yourself that was taken away from them without their consent." "I've
~ David Baldacci