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You cannot make this injustice impossible but you may set up obstacles.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “You cannot make this injustice impossible but you may set up obstacles.”
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Morley acknowledges the inevitability of injustice in governance but advocates for creating barriers to mitigate it.
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