"Animals for the most part just need to be left alone."

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"The use of the word "just" by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in "Just pull that sword out of the stone" or "Just split that atom."

— Michael Palin

Entertainment1943

#justice

"You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don’t care. Just don’t lie to me."

— Steven Crowder

Politics1987

#justice

"Somehow I arrived at the conclusion that, as a matter of principle, it was of paramount importance for me to have an antagonistic, ruthless attitude toward white women. The term outlaw appealed to me …"

— Eldridge Cleaver

Politics1935–1998

#justice