A fault confessed is half redressed.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.
Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs.
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
