Injustice Quotes - Page 17

• So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out to slay the dragon, to kill. It's a courage that's born out of fear, anger, and hate. But there's this other kind of courage. It's the courage to risk your life, not in war, not in battle, not out of fear ... but out of love and a sense of injustice that has to be challenged. It takes far more courage to challenge unjust authority without violence than it takes to kill all the monsters in all the stories told to children about the meaning of bravery.

  Riane Eisler

  Girl, Children, Hate

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• Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. Its temperament is desperate. It is a tormented response to the past, to all that has happened, the recalled and unrecalled injustices - for the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists.

  Hisham Matar

  Dream, Memories, Struggle

  "The Consequences of Dreams" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2014.

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• I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices.

  David Loy

  Karma, Teacher, Buddhist

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• So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

  Socrates

  Suffering

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• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Sacrifice, Self

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• I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Common Sense, Upset, World

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• It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

  Charles Morgan, Jr.

  Men, Justice, Liberty

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• When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Evil, Triumph

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4190, Library of Alexandria

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• The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wide disorder the citadel of misrule.

  Grover Cleveland

  Integrity, Justice, Political

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• But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.

  George Washington

  Mean, Doors, Giving

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• Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Pride, Political, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.312, Broadview Press

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• Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Light, Illumination

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• He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Inspiration

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• A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, ‘If it’s fair, it is not a true trial!’ That is, without the added presence of some inexplicableness and some irony and injustice, the experience may not stretch us or lift us sufficiently. The crucifixion of Christ was clearly the greatest injustice in human history, but the Savior bore up under it with majesty and indescribable valor.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Good Friend, Crucifixion Of Christ

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• If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Fighting, Destiny, Victory

  Miguel De Unamuno (2007). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.268, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

  James Callaghan

  Loss, British Soldiers, Citizens

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• We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the many laws, which have been obliged to be passed to protect them from their nearest male relatives, are a sufficient answer...They are evidently the production of men legislating for their own most obvious interest...without the slightest reference to the injustice they were committing against women.

  Marion Kirkland Reid

  Men, Law, Words Of Wisdom

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• That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Effort, Inspire

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• Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Anger, Society, Identity

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• 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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• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  Elihu Root

  Ambition, Perfection, Selfishness

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Men, Law

  "My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy".

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• The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Past, Voice

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press

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• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

  Ulrich Beck

  Hate, Feelings, Historical

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• Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our vision, obscures what's true, and leads us to believe that there is injustice in the world. I sometimes say that you move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

  Byron Katie

  Moving, Believe, Reality

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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