Injustice Quotes

• The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Justice, Form

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• It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Justice, Feelings

  Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

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• Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Clever, Threat

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• Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

  Miroslav Volf

  Prejudice, Untruthfulness, Form

  "Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'?" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

  Diane Glancy

  Thinking, Justice, Knows

  Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”

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• If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

  Eugenio Maria de Hostos

  Justice, Diversity, Wish

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• An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Justice, Human Rights, Threat

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• National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

  William E. Gladstone

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

  Speech in Plumstead, London, November 30, 1878.

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• Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Break

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, Way, Normal

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• The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

  Paul Claudel

  Animated, Inequality

  "Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher". Book by Paul Claudel, p. 22; translation from The Independent, February 6, 2001, 1984.

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• Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

  Washington Allston

  Home

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169

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• Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

  Aristotle

  Results

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  There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Freedom, Philosophy, Military

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

  Desmond Tutu

  Real, Europe, Injustice And Oppression

  University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

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• Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

  Chris Hedges

  Evil, Identity, Cruelty

  Chris Hedges (2011). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.15, Nation Books

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  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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Peace, Elephants

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014

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• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Death, Running

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• If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Unjust, Wells, Immoral

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• We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pain, Abuse, Suffering

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• Violence does even justice unjustly.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Justice, Doe, Violence

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.20

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• One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

  Julian Assange

  Justice, Way, Achieve

  "Julian Assange tells SXSW audience: 'NSA has grown to be a rogue agency'" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2014.

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• No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Pawns, Mortgage

  George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.82

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• Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, Justice, Church

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• Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

  Plato

  Plato, May, Victim

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.227, Xist Publishing

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