Injustice Quotes - Page 20

• You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

  Birch Bayh

  Country, Rights, Years

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• Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as human beings to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Because someone must sever this chain of hatred.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Two, Hatred, Forgiving

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• One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

  Hakim Bey

  Expression, People, Justice

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• Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Anger, Desire, Climate

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• I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Black History

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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• There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

  Ida B. Wells

  African American, Remedy, Know How

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.275, University of Chicago Press

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• It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Struggle, Rights

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• Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hate, Justice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Home

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

  Ariel Gore

  Sex, Writing, Burritos

  Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.41, Three Rivers Press

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• Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

  Natan Sharansky

  Serious, Courses, Free Society

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• Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

  Elihu Root

  Believe, People, Justice

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

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• My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

  Martin Sheen

  Justice, Firsts, Social

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• . . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Responsibility, Men, Self

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• The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

  King Hussein I

  Hands, Growth, Links

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• Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, War, Loss

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• Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

  Anatole France

  Mean, Justice, Justice Truth

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• I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

  Max Lucado

  Love, Hatred, Today

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

  Robert Gardner

  Children, Two, Get Away

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• In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Self, Direct Action, Campaigns

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Sex, Race

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• It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Fighting, Animal, Goal

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• The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.

  Brigid Brophy

  Sacrifice, Animal, Monkeys

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• The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Men, Light

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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