Injustice Quotes - Page 28

• Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Christian, Blessing, Names

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

  Frederick Douglass

  People, Literature, Demand

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• The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Christian, Hands, Imagination

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• Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into the community and attempt to correct the injustices which are everywhere apparent against them.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Moving, Community

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• The "r" word [racism] is a scary word to me - I don't like to say it. I'm not trying to say it doesn't exist. It's incredibly inflammatory and invites a lot of awful mistakes and injustices that have happened and still do happen. It's a word that has been thrown around in a way that incites a lot of bad feelings in most people.

  Brandi Chastain

  Mistake, Racism, People

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right... 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, Thinking

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

  John Berger

  May, Impossible, Birth

  John Berger (2011). “Pig Earth”, p.165, Vintage

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• Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Common Sense, Starting Over, Together

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• Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

  Lori Foster

  Children, Eye, Focus

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• Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Gratitude, Kindness, Children

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. To which is Added Doctor Birch, and His Young Friends”, p.33

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• To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

  Plautus

  Simple, Hands, Unjust

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• For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Evil, Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Children, Light, Childhood

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• It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Years, People, Justice

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• To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

  Charles Lamb

  Hypocrisy, Being Thankful, Add

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.390

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• Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

  Plato

  Suffering, Reproach

  Plato, G. M. A. Grube (1992). “Republic (Grube Edition)”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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• The tyrant should take heed to what he doth,
  Since every victim-carrion turns to use,
  And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth,
  Against each piled injustice.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Tyrants, Use, Victim

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.297

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• Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Political, Desire, Deeds

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.152, Vintage

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• Strict law is often great injustice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Strict, Strict Laws

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• So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

  Anatole France

  Law, Long, Unjust

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• The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Men, Earth

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

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• Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Jobs, Maturity, Bears

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• I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

  Muriel Spark

  Justice, Causes, Anxious

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.85, Canongate Books

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• Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Morning, Eye

  Doris Lessing (2012). “This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Fashion, Plato, War

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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