Word: unjustly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government is often wrong, often unjust; and the whole basis of a Democracy rests upon the moral sense of the people exerting a continual pressure on the Government through criticism. Sometimes that criticism is expressed in votes, sometimes in petition, but it is absolutely essential to Responsible Government...
...faith of the nation in the patriotism of one large group in our society. So long as there is a law, it must be obeyed. A free and democratic government is that which affords opportunity to the people to strike out or change what seems to them an unjust law. Ours is such a government; if enough people can be persuaded to their side, the miners will eventually gain their point without violence through proper legislation...
...Nations at present is entirely useless. The great Powers have simply gone ahead and arranged the world to suit themselves. England and France in particular have got out of the treaty everything that they wanted, and the League, of Nations can do nothing to alter any of the unjust clause of the treaty except by unanimous consent of the members of the league, and the great Powers will never give their consent to changes in the interests of weaker peoples...
...liberality has its limit, and justice for all the nations concerned is at this juncture an infinitely more important consideration. Justice does not require that Germany be admitted at once to the League of Nations. In fact, it seems to require the very opposite, namely that it would be unjust to all the well-intentioned parties to the League, if a nation that had acted from consistently selfish and reactionary motives for forty years, and had constantly broken faith with its more honest neighbors, were admitted to the League, before showing even the smallest signs of a change of heart...
Legal aid will serve another purpose. It will educate the masses in the knowledge that courts are places where anyone can go to redress the wrongs that have been committed against him. The cases are numberless where persons have suffered from the most unjust imposition because of the fear that the very words "law" and "court" have caused them. Unworthy members of the profession have very often gained their more unworthy ends by the skillful manner in which they have used this weapon. "Being called to court" and "going to court" are phrases as terrible to many persons...