Injustice Quotes - Page 22

• I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.

  Helen Prejean

  Prayer, Suffering, World

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• Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

  David Korten

  Strong, Rights, Proud

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• No man suffers injustice without learning,
  vaguely but surely, what justice is.

  Isaac Rosenfeld

  Men, Justice, Suffering

  Isaac Rosenfeld, Mark Shechner (1988). “Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader”, p.123, Wayne State University Press

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• The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

  Nafisa Joseph

  Children, World, Able

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• To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Men, Libel

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.148, A&C Black

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• Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Believe, Self

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• Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

  Bella Thorne

  Motivation, Helping Others, Suffering

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

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• The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

  Bram Fischer

  Prejudice, Blinded

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• The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

  Amelia Bloomer

  Prejudice, Intemperance, Emancipation

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• Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are all that's visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day.

  John G. Bennett

  Light, Order, Perspective

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• All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.

  Ezra Stiles

  Military, War, Race

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• Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Libertarian, Commit

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• To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

  Plato

  Suffering, Disgraceful

  Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Home, Cities

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• A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

  John Irving

  Motivation, Stronger, Philanthropy

  John Irving (2012). “A Son Of The Circus”, p.103, Random House

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• RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rain, Fall, Fire

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Black And White, America, Together

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• When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

  Barney Frank

  Law, Effort, Community

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• I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Art, Struggle, Years

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

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• Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

  Plato

  Suffering, Censure

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• The world is an enormous injustice.

  Jules Romains

  World, Enormous

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• The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  School, Stories, Credit

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• First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  Experts, Different, Matter

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• And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

  Dinah Shore

  Sports, Taken, Fads

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• The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

  Max Baucus

  Shapes, Today, Facts

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