Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Injustice

• You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Mean, Men

• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

• It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suffering, Injustice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.349

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Dollars, Injustice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.352

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