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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Injustice
  • Transformed
  • Power Of Love

• Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• Delay in justice is injustice.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Justice
  • Injustice
  • Delay

• In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • World
  • War
  • Revolution

• While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Capitalism
  • Injustice

• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Silent
  • Injustice
  • Racial

• I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Injustice
  • Willing

• You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Dog
  • Nation
  • Transform

• The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Quality
  • Moral

• People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • People
  • Produce
  • Disorder

• For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Future
  • Injustice

• Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Perish

• Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Authority
  • Injustice
  • Duration

• There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Evil
  • Moment
  • Injustice

• Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Justice
  • Doing
  • Injustice

• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Choice
  • Human being
  • Regeneration

• Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Nation
  • Scared

• Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Simple
  • Destiny
  • Luck

• Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Fight
  • Injustice

• In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Problem
  • Hunger
  • Conflicts

• It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • America
  • History
  • Injustice

• ... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Heart
  • Conscious
  • Sincere

• Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Peace
  • Stop
  • Oppression

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