Injustice Quotes - Page 38

• Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

  David Byrne

  America, Experts, Comeback

  "David Byrne: 'It feels like the end of history in pop music'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Grief, Men, Justice

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• It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

  Cesar Chavez

  Opportunity, Giving, Justice

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

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• Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Animal, Kind

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• There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Loss, Greatness, Self

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• Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

  Quentin Crisp

  Book, Reading, Way

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• We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

  Davy Crockett

  Sympathy, Respect, Balance

  "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.

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• As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

  Dorothy Day

  Giving Up, Bears, Judgment

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• Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Two Nations, Welfare Programs

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.315

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• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Dollars, Social

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.352

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• As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

  Susan Faludi

  Employment, Facts, Mental Health

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, People, May

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  Carly Fiorina

  Ideas, People, Challenges

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• As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

  Erich Fromm

  Ladders, Mask, Social

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• To be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Society

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

  Robert Frost

  Mercy

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

  Eva Gabrielsson

  Believe, People, Vengeance

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• When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

  Lady Gaga

  Eye, Soul, Fans

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• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Political, Mind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.106, Rajpal & Sons

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• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Politics, Revolution

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• My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Skills, Organization

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• Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Hope, Fear, Lying

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Beauty, Beautiful, Morning

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• Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Home, Past, Years

  "We Want Peace and Stability". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. June 12, 2006.

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• But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

  Tom Hanks

  Loneliness, Fate, Thinking

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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