Injustice Quotes - Page 16

• Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

  James Tooley

  Currents, Interest, Policy

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• Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Prejudice, Ignored

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.16, Beacon Press

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• The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Tree, Storm, Rotten

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• Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

  Lucretia Mott

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

  Wole Soyinka

  Justice, Righteous, Teach

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Oct 02, 2016

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• Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Pain, Block

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.93, Beacon Press

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• Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, Men, Law

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

  Martin McGuinness

  Gun, Government, Doors

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• Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Tribes, Sin, Cruelty

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.144, Macmillan

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• Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Adversity, Men, Despair

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.20, Kube Publishing Ltd

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• But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really consider whether they think the benefits outweigh the very serious potential injustice, because in these cases the emotions are very, very high on both sides and to have stakes as high as you do in these cases, there is a special potential for error. We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

  John Paul Stevens

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

  Julius Nyerere

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

  Chrysippus

  Justice, Cowardice, Falsehood

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• When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Inspiration, Struggle

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• Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in Northern Ireland, between Jews and Muslims and Christians in Palestine, Hindus and Muslims in South Asia and in many other places. Attempts to bring about peace have failed again and again. Always the extremist elements invoking past injustices, imagined or real, will succeed in torpedoing the peace efforts and bringing about another bout of hostility.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Christian, Religious, Real

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• When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

  Charles Dickens

  Faith, Men, Moral

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.539

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• The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

  Gloria Steinem

  Family, Sex, Believe

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• Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Freedom, Men

  1840 Letter to John Sterling, collected in New Letters of Carlyle (1904), vol.1.

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• It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

  Craig Reucassel

  Funny, Goal, Chance

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• Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

  Anatole France

  Justice, Cynical, Sanctions

  Anatole France (2008). “Crainquebille”, p.29, Wildside Press LLC

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• Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

  Karl Marx

  Sex, Philosophical, Progress

  "Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes".

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• A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

  Sallust

  Inspirational, Character, Mean

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• A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Humble, Humility, Men

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• When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

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• I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Believe, Pride, Race

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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