Injustice Quotes
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.
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
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.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.
Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.
For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.
Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work
Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.
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.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school.
Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice
I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free
For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.
Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.
For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
