Injustice Quotes - Page 23

• To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Country, Mean, Together

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• Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

  Rod Steiger

  Reflection, People, Film

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• Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

  Joan Cusack

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Book, Writing, Responsibility

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• I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

  John W. Snow

  Thinking, Long, Reform

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Helping Others, Years, Unitarian Church

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• Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

  Helen Garner

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

  Walter Raleigh

  Loss, Men, Damage

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• The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Hopeful, Age

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• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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• He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

  Rachel Weisz

  Fighting, Men, People

  "Weisz leads British success at Oscars". www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2006.

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• Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

  Ronald Reagan

  Unjust, Impossible, Taxes

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• Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate injustice against my people all over the world, and your support of them makes you directly responsible, just as I am directly responsible for protecting and avenging my Muslim brothers and sisters.

  Mohamed Khan

  Brother, Government, People

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• You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to do with politics than with theology. I'm disappointed that clergy would be leading such a divisive call.

  Tim McDonald

  Mean, Sunday, People

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• It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

  Sergey Lavrov

  Realizing, Combat

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• It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

  Jeff Cohen

  Past, Long, Humanitarian

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• This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

  Ralph Nader

  Office, Clinton, Policy

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• What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

  Mike Farrell

  Environmental, Seeing

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• He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice.

  Alex Ferguson

  Thinking, Unfair, Wayne

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• The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.

  Ali Khamenei

  Islamic, Done, Way

  "Iran President: Israel Will Be Annihilated". www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2006.

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• I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.

  Paul Haggis

  Awards, People, Risk

  "The Oscars, minute by minute" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2006.

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• He's 19 years of age, ... He's a fiery character and competitive. I think maybe when he sees things that are a bit of an injustice against him then he reacts like that.

  Fergie

  Character, Thinking, Years

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• I think it's a complete injustice, the way it's (the trial) being done

  Dionne Warwick

  Thinking, Done, Trials

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• Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

  Diane Watson

  Legacy, Determined, Dignity

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• Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

  Khaled Hosseini

  Needs, Flocks, Wardens

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.296, A&C Black

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