Injustice Quotes - Page 39

• The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

  Garrett Hardin

  Responsibility, Coercion, Social

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Giving, World, Humanitarian

  McCall's, Volume 116, p. 733, 1988.

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• And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Nice, Book, Writing

  "Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Hitch-22". "Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. July 13, 2010.

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• The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, World, Sentimental

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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• The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  People, Community, Bosnia

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• When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.

  JR

  Eye, Journey, Cities

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• Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jealousy, Rivals, Bears

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1052, Library of America

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• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Needs, World, Kind

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• My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

  Johann Lamont

  Party, Fighting, Poverty

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• Delay in justice is injustice.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Justice, Delay

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• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

  John L. Lewis

  Future, Thoughtful, America

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• What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

  Wynton Marsalis

  New Orleans, Citizens, World

  "New Orleans Contemplates Its Racial Future". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 17, 2006.

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• We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

  Phil McGraw

  Truth, Believe, Feet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

  Kelly Miller

  Taken, Errors, Justice

  Kelly Miller (1914). “Out of the house of bondage”

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• When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

  Chuck Norris

  Fighting, Guy, Acting

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• Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

  Frances O'Grady

  Strong, Jobs, Impact

  " To strike is a right - stop trying to deter the low-paid from exercising it" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• 'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, War, Race

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• It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

  Bill Pascrell

  Jobs, Suffering, Lines

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• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

  Evita Peron

  Book, History, Use

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• A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

  Jimmy Reid

  Race, Self, Silence

  "The People Speak: Democracy is not a Spectator Sport". Book by Colin Firth (p. 226), September 13, 2012.

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• The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

  Jules Renard

  World, Forget, Danger

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.268, Tin House Books

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• There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

  Lysander Spooner

  Criminals, Resisting

  Lysander Spooner (1850). “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves”, p.36

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• It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

  Lysander Spooner

  Lying, Government Lies, Resistance

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.11, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

  Lysander Spooner

  Giving Up, Apology, Men

  Lysander Spooner (1845). “The Unconstitutionality of Slavery”, p.21

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• The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, People, Liberty

  Lysander Spooner (1850). “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves”, p.30

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