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Redress
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Compensation for injuries sustained; recovery or restitution for harm or injury; damages or equitable relief. Access to the courts to gain Reparation for a wrong.

REDRESS. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table.
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He further maintains that the paranoid actually redresses universalist history--what he calls latent destiny--by demonstrating the mechanism by which universalist history is constructed out of multiplicity.
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Judgment, he says, becomes political when it forbids or redresses wrong that harms the public good.
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Indeed, the emphasis on African voices is very important and redresses the near absence of Africans in the interpretive planning of most art exhibitions.
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