Injustice famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.
-- Agesilaus II -
I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.
-- Alan Brennert -
We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.
-- Alexei Navalny -
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
-- Amelia Barr -
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free
-- Amelia Bloomer -
Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.
-- Amy Carter -
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
-- Anatole France -
calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.
-- Anita Hill -
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
-- Avery Brundage -
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
-- Bayard Rustin -
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
-- Bertrand Russell -
nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.
-- Beryl Bainbridge -
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
-- Brad Meltzer -
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
-- Bram Fischer -
self-interest usually brings injustice with it.
-- Catherine the Great -
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
-- Cesare Pavese -
I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
-- Charles Bukowski -
If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.
-- Charles Koch -
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
-- Che Guevara -
I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
-- Chris Hayes -
Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.
-- Chris Hedges -
It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.
-- Christine Caine -
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
-- Chrysippus -
Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.
-- Chuck Robb -
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.
-- David Baldacci -
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
-- Dawn Powell -
Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
-- Deepak Chopra -
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
-- Democritus -
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
-- Demosthenes -
If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.
-- Derrick Jensen -
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?
-- Diane Glancy -
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
-- Dorothy Day -
While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
-- Ed Miliband -
Convention, so often a mask for injustice ...
-- Edith Hamilton -
It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.
-- Edward Glaeser -
those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...
-- Eliza Haywood -
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
-- Erich Fromm -
To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.
-- Fannie Lou Hamer -
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.
-- Francis Schaeffer -
Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.
-- Frederick Romilly -
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
-- Garrett Hardin -
Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery,
-- Gary Haugen -
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
-- George Washington -
It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injustice; but, in the other case, sense is required. Therefore, we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth; and then, from want of sense, roll head over heels to the bottom.
-- Giambattista Basile -
Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.
-- Gloria Allred -
I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, psychologically, often physically. It's all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we're all being denied our rights.
-- Gloria Allred -
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
-- Grover Cleveland -
Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez -
There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.
-- Harriet Ann Jacobs -
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible†and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.
-- Helen H. Gardener -
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.
-- Hope Edelman -
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
-- Horace -
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.
-- Hugh Masekela -
Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.
-- Ibn Khaldun -
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
-- Ida B. Wells -
As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.
-- Ivica Dacic -
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
-- Ivo Andric -
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.
-- Jacques Ellul -
The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.
-- James H. Cone -
Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
-- James J. Corbett -
Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.
-- James Tooley -
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
-- Jane Welsh Carlyle -
Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
-- Jean Racine -
Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.
-- Jeff Cohen -
the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.
-- Jessica Mitford -
Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.
-- Joel Osteen -
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
-- John Berger -
How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?
-- John Carlos -
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
-- John Henninger Reagan -
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
-- John Locke -
An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
-- John Rawls -
I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.
-- Johnnetta B. Cole -
The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
José Antonio Primo de Rivera stated, “Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith.
-- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera -
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
-- Joyce Cary -
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.
-- Joyce Cary -
We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
-- Jules Renard -
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
-- Jules Renard -
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
-- Julian Assange -
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
-- Julian Casablancas -
If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.
-- June Callwood
