Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Injustice

• I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Example, World

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

• I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Believe, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

• There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Sweat, Injustice

• We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Lying, Justice

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

• No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Favors, Favour

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.49, Wildside Press LLC

• I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Real, War

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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