Injustice Quotes - Page 33

• If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Exercise, Inequality, Persons

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you're in, when you want something - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it. When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

  Brad Meltzer

  Daughter, Believe, Fighting

  "Brad Meltzer Talks About His New Heroes For My Daughter". Interview with Rebecca Gruber, www.popsugar.com. April 10, 2012.

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• The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Rights, Law, Two Sides

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• If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all the opportunities that complement him in knowledge and health, come from Divine Kindness and, that most of the material resources that are at his disposition and desires proceed from injustice.

  Chico Xavier

  Kindness, Past, Opportunity

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• If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us through the harsh climb of redemption. If we do not, today, have a determined bond with the wealth of injustice, we had it yesterday, and it becomes indispensable that we take advantage of time for our own individual readjustment before the Divine Justice.

  Chico Xavier

  Spiritual, Dedication, Past

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• It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, America, United States

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• The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.

  Benjamin Creme

  Selfish, War, Outcomes

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.

  Richard A. Falk

  Capitalist Economy, Practice, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Brother, Blood, Picks

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Two, Justice

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter.

  Sarah Stillman

  Thinking, Interesting, Narrative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

  Eliza Griswold

  Poverty, Terrorism, Truth Is

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.

  Gerald Stern

  Notebook, Flower, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think just as a person, if you say you follow Christ, you have to stand up for the injustices that are going on in the world.

  The Rocket Summer

  Thinking, World, Christ

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• The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

  Marina Warner

  Justice, Stories, Commit

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.

  Elia Suleiman

  Thinking, Moral, Truth Is

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• King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Kings, Sleep, Break Through

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• I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration.

  Brad Willis

  Thinking, Differences, Suffering

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a movement of radicals who did manage to effect political change. Despite things that radical movements always face, differences and divisions, they were able to actually galvanize the movement and translate it into a political agenda.

  Manisha Sinha

  Differences, Political, Trying

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms of violence and injustice as well as forms of violence and injustice from other groups - some superpowers, for example, or the English Defence League, as other examples.

  Alison Assiter

  League, Perspective, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't do anything about it, I just liked the feeling of being pissed off.

  Harold Ramis

  Feelings, Pissed Off, Entertainment

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Done, Narrative, Faults

  "Anne-Marie Slaughter – ‘This Country Is Ready for a Woman in the White House’". Interview with Britta Sandberg and Samiha Shafy, www.yerepouni-news.com. March 3, 2016.

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• We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.

  Ray McGovern

  Responsibility, Rights, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

  Mavis Staples

  Song, Grateful, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.

  Cornel West

  White, Class, Arrogance

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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