Injustice Quotes - Page 32

• Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gratitude, Generosity, Guilt

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• I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

  David Remnick

  Fun, Light, Numbers

  "Media People: The New Yorker’s David Remnick". Interview with Alexandra Steigrad, wwd.com. October 10, 2014.

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• Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Covered Up, Direct Action, Medicine

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “Why we can't wait”

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• ‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Bootstraps

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• Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

  Charlie Munger

  Envy, Taxation, Resentment

  Charlie Munger's advice on life and other at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 3, 2003.

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• Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Lying, Believe

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• I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.

  Sylvia Porter

  Economic, Economic Injustice, Fury

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• To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are opposite and contradictory to the ideals of Americanism. The ideals of African Internationalism promote freedom from oppression and injustice. These ideals promote freedom and independence.

  Omali Yeshitela

  Opposites, Ideas, Independence

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• We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.

  James Augustus St. John

  Hands, Feet, People

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• My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

  Ziggy Marley

  Country, Father, Poor Neighborhoods

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Feb 02, 2015

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• Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?

  Stephen Fry

  Zoos, Coffee, Men

  "The future's in the past" by Stephen Fry, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2006.

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• Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

  Plutarch

  Men, Doe, Beast

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

  Hugo Chavez

  Democracy, Impossible, Tyranny

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• America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands."

  Jon Meacham

  Art, Moving, America

  "Book World Live: Jon Meacham Discusses His Acclaimed Andrew Jackson Biography 'American Lion' with Readers". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Civilization, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Attitude, Two, Stories

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Love, Grace, Kind

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• In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

  Paulo Freire

  Opportunity, Order, Generosity

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Make injustice visible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Visible

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• Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Defense, Bombs

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• I'm definitely always drawn to the injustice of people who have been imprisoned for things they didn't do. But also lots about abortion and gay marriage. Civil issues are usually what I am drawn to.

  Natalie Maines

  Gay, Issues, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the continued occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis; the enormous, constant Arab anger with the tens of thousands of Iraqi children who are dying under sanctions; the feelings of humiliation of millions of Arabs living under petty dictators, almost all of whom are propped up by the West.

  Robert Fisk

  Children, Land, Feelings

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 1, 2001.

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• Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into those buildings. And we should remember that. The crimes against humanity were perpetrated by people who were Arab Muslims.

  Robert Fisk

  People, Political, Humanity

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

  Harrison Ford

  Baseball, Believe, Color

  "PUM One on One with Harrison Ford". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

  Bill Ayers

  Mean, Busy, Assault

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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