Injustice Quotes
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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
Plato -
It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one.
Socrates
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. Mencken -
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
John Locke Nazareth -
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon -
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
William Faulkner -
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
Lara Logan -
In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.
Carter G. Woodson
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I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.
Tom Morello Rage Against the Machine -
Job'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.
Walter Kaufmann -
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
Aristotle -
If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.
Mike Tyson -
We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
Forest Whitaker
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Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?
Carter G. Woodson -
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
Aristotle -
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
Taylor Sheridan -
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
Salma Hayek -
It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice
Sergey Lavrov -
I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.
Maggie Williams
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan -
You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.
Edmund White -
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.