Injustice Quotes
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.
Tags: Questions, Ways ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Tags: Anywhere, Justice ✍ Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Tags: Cause, Economic ✍ Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Tags: Evil, Him ✍ Author: Ronald ReaganAs a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
Tags: Justice, Lawyer ✍ Author: David BaldacciJustice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Tags: Justice, Whatever ✍ Author: Samuel ButlerMen feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Tags: Men, Poor ✍ Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonAs prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.
Tags: Decision, Prime ✍ Author: Ivica DacicIf thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Tags: Suffer, True ✍ Author: Ellen DeGeneresIn the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Tags: Children, Felt ✍ Author: Charles DickensFind out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Tags: Measure, Wrong ✍ Author: Frederick DouglassEvery social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
Tags: Economic, Social ✍ Author: William FeatherThe strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Tags: Law, Sometimes ✍ Author: Benjamin FranklinIt is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Tags: Courteous, Courtesy ✍ Author: Baltasar GracianThe world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Tags: Makes, Wise ✍ Author: Thomas HuxleyThe international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
Tags: Cannot, Forward ✍ Author: Alija IzetbegovicAt 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
Tags: Real, Students ✍ Author: Tahar Ben JellounJob's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
Tags: Job, Weird ✍ Author: Walter KaufmannMy Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
Tags: Fight, Poverty ✍ Author: Johann LamontVisit partners pages
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
Tags: Easy, Justice ✍ Author: H. L. MenckenWe've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.
Tags: Grown, Russia ✍ Author: Bruce NaumanWe don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.
Tags: Battle, House ✍ Author: Timothy OlyphantHe who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Tags: Suffers, Wretched ✍ Author: Sylvia PlathThe highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Tags: Highest, Reach ✍ Author: Sylvia PlathBut 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.
Tags: Free, Tell ✍ Author: John H. ReaganI try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
Tags: Life, Try ✍ Author: Susan SarandonThe Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
Tags: Bible, Face ✍ Author: Joni Eareckson TadaAwareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
Tags: Head, Society ✍ Author: Serj TankianJustice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Tags: Justice, Sweet ✍ Author: Henry David ThoreauIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Tags: Appreciate, History ✍ Author: Desmond TutuAll History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Tags: History, Level ✍ Author: Alice WalkerProbably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Tags: Against, Understand ✍ Author: Lakhdar BrahimiThe tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Tags: May, Tongue ✍ Author: Joseph ButlerGreed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Tags: Current, Greed ✍ Author: Julian CasablancasProgress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Tags: Generation, Progress ✍ Author: Emile M. CioranIndividuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
Tags: Community, Justice ✍ Author: James J. CorbettRarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.
Tags: Angry, Rights ✍ Author: Morris DeesYes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Tags: Hand, Promises ✍ Author: Mary DouglasThe glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
Tags: Blinded, Prejudice ✍ Author: Bram FischerI think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
Tags: Anger, Angry ✍ Author: Chris HayesSince when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Tags: Agree, Since ✍ Author: Lillian HellmanInjustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
Tags: Men, Time ✍ Author: Mother JonesBut if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
Tags: Head, Read ✍ Author: Nigella LawsonOur arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent.
Tags: Political, Suffering ✍ Author: Leopoldo LopezI think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.
Tags: Beings, Human ✍ Author: Hugh MasekelaDon't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Tags: Mistake, Thinking ✍ Author: Bryant H. McGillWhen you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
Tags: Fight, Harder ✍ Author: Brad MeltzerWhile there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
Tags: Socialism, While ✍ Author: Ed MilibandIf you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
Tags: Done, Light ✍ Author: Susan SontagThere can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.
Tags: Criminal, Intent ✍ Author: Lysander SpoonerThe moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
Tags: Justice, Moment ✍ Author: Benjamin TuckerPrejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
Tags: Insidious, Prejudice ✍ Author: Miroslav VolfMaybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
Tags: Maybe, Music ✍ Author: Wim Wenders