Unjust Quotes - Page 20

• Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Brother, Rights

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.

  William the Silent

  Christian, People, Enemy

  "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 62, 1897.

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• ... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

  Margaret Deland

  Fall, Iron, Dust

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.310, Wildside Press LLC

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• Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

  Euripides

  Hurt, Men, Order

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• But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Emotions Feelings, Ungrateful

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.94, Bantam

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• It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

  Franz Kafka

  Would Be, Sometimes, Deserted

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Thinking, Sick

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• We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hero, Evil

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

  Sophocles

  Justice, Internet, Free Speech

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• In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Unjust Society, Politics

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• The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

  Gerry Spence

  Unjust Society, People, Appreciate

  Gerry Spence (1989). “With justice for none: destroying an American myth”, Crown

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• The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

  Alan Paton

  Law, People, Justice

  ALAN PATON (1968). “Cry, the Beloved Country”

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• I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper - The Revolution - four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government... And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Law, Rebel

  An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony on the charge of illegal voting at the Presidential election in Nov., 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of elections by whom her vote was received, 1874.

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• Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Rain, Fall, Suspicion

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.140, Essential Library

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• the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

  Jessica Mitford

  Expression, Injustice, Prison

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage

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• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

  John Rawls

  Law, Justice, Matter

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

  Hanoi Hannah

  War, Fighting, Gis

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• the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Reflection, Men, Thinking

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• A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

  Peter Thiel

  Agency, Over You, Important

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.64, Crown Business

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• No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side

  Bob Riley

  War, Men, Two

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• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Educational, Practice, Role Models

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• If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Rights, Offending, Law

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• Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

  John Calvin

  Guilt, Heretic

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• For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, People, Giving

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

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