injustice quotes

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he’s around.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Men 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.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

If 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.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I’m a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

In 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.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.