Injustice Quotes - Page 10

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Religious, War

  Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.339

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• When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Favour, Accepting, Threatened

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.207, Cambridge University Press

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• For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Long, People

  "Nick Clegg announces support for new transparency law" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

  Jacque Fresco

  Integrity, Fighting, Equality

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Action, Segregation

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There are three ways in which one can deal with an injustice. (a) One can accept it without protest. (b) On can seek to avoid it. (c) One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.

  Bayard Rustin

  Believe, Political, Three

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• Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Self, Law, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Littles, Too Much, Would Be

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• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Freedom, Block, Home

  "Wellspring: 365 Meditations to Refresh Your Soul". Book by Karen Moore (p. 263), October 1, 2011.

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• What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

  Terry Brooks

  Life, Men, Hatred

  Terry Brooks (2012). “Terry Brooks Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: The Sword of Shannara, Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold!, Running with the Demon, Armageddon's Children”, p.426, Del Rey

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• The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

  Theodore Parker

  Brother, Soul, Naked

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.55

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• Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Law, People

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Class, Snakes, Weather

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.194, Prestwick House Inc

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• A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

  Pauline Kael

  Book, Reading, Might

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• In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Black, Taught

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.4, Book Tree

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• Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

  Carter G. Woodson

  Class, Black, Why Not

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree

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• Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Courageous, Teach

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• To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

  Clare Short

  Rights, Roots, Effort

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• The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Justice, Moments, Victim

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

  Che Guevara

  Tyrants, History, Justice

  Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2009). “Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara”, p.182, Ocean Press

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• This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Struggle, Blow, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass, Milton Meltzer (1995). “Frederick Douglass, in his own words”, Harcourt Children's Books

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• The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Mean, Men

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. You can face difficulties head-on, or run from them, or ignore them until they consume you. But no one escapes conflict. No one.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Running, Fighting, Challenges

  Bill O'Reilly (2006). “Culture Warrior”, p.1, Three Rivers Press

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• Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Wall, Son, Night

  "The Souls of Black Folk".

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