Injustice Quotes - Page 2

• When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

  Brad Meltzer

  Believe, Fighting, Harder

  Brad Meltzer (2012). “Heroes for My Daughter”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

  Aristophanes

  Blessing, World, Crowds

  Aristophanes (2004). “Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.32, Sparklesoup LLC

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• The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

  Cornel West

  Hate, Mean, Suffering

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• It's absolutely essential for every generation to capture that social responsibility. Injustice grows like weeds. The injustices of the world are like weeds, and if you do nothing they'll choke your whole garden, man.

  Luis Valdez

  Weed, Responsibility, Men

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• Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

  Edmund Burke

  Ministers, Fraud, Ready

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.282

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• You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

  Apolo Ohno

  Failure, Positivity, Ice Skating

  Apolo Ohno (2010). “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Integrity, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

  Salma Hayek

  Worst Situation, People, Suffering

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Whole Life, Collectors

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• I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

  Marguerite Duras

  Views, Social, Social Injustice

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.1, Grove Press

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• You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

  Rae Foley

  Faces, Guilty, Inaction

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• Peace without justice is tyranny

  William Allen White

  Peace, Editors, Justice

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

  Mother Jones

  Heart, Men, White

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• I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

  Serj Tankian

  Hate, Want, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

  Serj Tankian

  Our Society, Awareness, Type

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Religious, Educational, People

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• Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Justice, Mixtures

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• Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

  George Santayana

  Fate, Justice, World

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.67, 谷月社

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• If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

  Helen Clark

  Community, Suffering, Matter

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• Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Peace, War

  "Questions sur les Miracles". Publication by Voltaire, 1765.

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• The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  America, Racism, People

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• self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

  Catherine the Great

  Self, Interest, Self Interest

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• There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Black, Doe, Graves

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.294

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• It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.

  John Lewis

  People, Together, Needs

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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