Justice And Injustice Quotes - Page 2

• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Patriotic, Heart

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• It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

  Robert Kennedy

  Courage, Peace, Volunteer

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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

  Horace

  Father, Literature, Injustice

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• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Justice, Bears

  "Prejudices: Third Series".

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• A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

  Simone Weil

  Kindness, Optimistic, Mean People

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.72, Psychology Press

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• When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Favour, Injustice, Accepting

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.207, Cambridge University Press

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

  Democritus

  Suffering, Injustice, Unhappiness

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• Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Men, Perfect

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.303, Vintage

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• These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

  Anacharsis

  Law, Feet, Literature

  "Greek Lives". Book by Plutarch, translation by Robin Waterfield, p. 50, 1998.

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• Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Progress, Generations, Injustice

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Respect, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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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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• I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Justice, Mixtures

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• Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Self, Justice, Ends

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• The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Guarantees That, Rights, Justice

  Statement to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 18 April 2008, New York, NY

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• Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Responsibility, Giving, Justice

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• As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Light, Cities, White

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth.

  Marietta Holley

  Country, Order, Wind

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