Injustice Quotes - Page 8

• The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.

  Tommy Makem

  Strong, Fighting, Voice

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

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• If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

  Democritus

  Suffering, Unhappiness, True Wealth

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• An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Atmosphere, Way

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• Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

  Horace

  Father, Literature, Sin

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• Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rocks, Dignity, Policy

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Rights, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “Frederick Douglass: 100 Quotes on Bondage, Perseverance, and Redemption”

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• My job, as an actor, is to entertain people. My contribution to society is to be a respite from everyday life. People go home and watch television or they go to the movies, and they get to escape their reality. But if I can do entertainment that also maybe can educate people, educate myself, move people's hearts and minds, in some way, and bring light to some injustice, that's when entertainment is at its best. And if somebody wants to get more involved in a socially active way, that's when you've done the thing that I've always wanted to be a part of.

  Paula Patton

  Moving, Heart, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

  Charles Koch

  Needs, Ifs

  "Charles Koch, Liberal Crusader?" by Michael Hirsh, www.politico.com. March/April 2015.

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• Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  Langston Hughes

  Country, Book, Color

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• Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

  Lillian Hellman

  Women, Diversity, People

  Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”

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• Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Government, Institutions, Commit

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• No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Matter, Rise Against

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.85, A&C Black

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• There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts.

  Pope John Paul II

  Powerful, Media, Understanding

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• All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.

  Muhammad

  Positive, Brother, Adam

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• To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

  Aristotle

  Hands, Errors, Giving

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• Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Real, Dark

  "I Have a Dream". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. August 28, 1963.

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• Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

  Hosea Ballou

  Justice, Bears, Burden

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• tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Produce, Tyranny, Cunning

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.8

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• The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Track, Empires, Ruins

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

  Ann Landers

  Money, Jobs, Maturity

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• That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.

  William Hazlitt

  Hurt, Men, Humanity

  William Hazlitt (2016). “Characters of Shakespeare's Plays”, p.48, William Hazlitt

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• This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

  Desmond Tutu

  Lying, Mean, People

  "No Future Without Forgiveness". Book by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

  Alexander Theroux

  Hate, Hypocrisy, Reason

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.

  Suzy Kassem

  Wall, Men, Long

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• If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

  Nelson DeMille

  Real, Humanity, Would Be

  Nelson DeMille (1978). “By the rivers of Babylon: a novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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