Nelson Mandela Quotes About Injustice

Quotes about: Injustice

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Compassion, Our World, Long

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

• Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty, Justice

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016

• It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Struggle, Rights

• How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Believe, Government, Years

• I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Attitude, Justice For All

• Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Fighting, Arms

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Giving, Justice

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2016

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