Injustice Quotes

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

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.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person’s kindness can save a life.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.