Unjust Quotes - Page 13

• Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

  Long, Silent

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• The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

  Ted Olson

  Marriage, Hair, Ideas

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• We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Born, Grows, Prepared

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• As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even the most unjust and cruel things, as well as all seemingly pointless and undeserved sufferings, have been permitted by God as a glorious opportunity for us to react to them in such a way that our Lord and Savior is able to produce in us, little by little, his own lovely character.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Christian, Children, Character

  "Hinds' Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey".

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• Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Powerful, Fall, Order

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.317, Broadway Books

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• Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

  Cornel West

  Successful, Greatness, People

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• If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.

  Umar

  Praying, Praise, Rulers

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• The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

  Lord Acton

  People

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• I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

  Donald Miller

  Greatness, Thinking, Grieving

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mean, Animal, Ideas

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• Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Noble, Height

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.

  George MacDonald

  Friday, Jesus, Son

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• In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

  William Penn

  Victory, Debate, Truth Is

  William Penn (1839). “Fruits of solitude ... New edition”, p.31

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• I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

  James Joyce

  Men, Harsh, Description

  James Joyce (1966). “Letters”

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• Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.

  Zane Grey

  Stifling

  "The Call of the Canyon".

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• We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Compassion, Punishment

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• I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

  Julianna Baggott

  Running, Believe, Men

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• Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Mother, Husband, Acceptance

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• People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Animal, People

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

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• Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Light

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Life, Order, Civilization

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• Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Law, Martyrdom

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.225, Penguin

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• All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.

  Murray Rothbard

  War, Government, Claims

  Interview in Reason magazine, February 1973.

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• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  George Washington

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

  Thomas Sowell

  Islands, Justice, Desert

  Thomas Sowell (2001). “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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