Unjust Society Quotes

• To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

  Confucius

  Justice, Honor, Wealth

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Politics, Prison

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• For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.

  Frei Betto

  Atheist, Struggle, Men

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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

  People, Appreciate, Justice

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

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• If you do not clean up your sociaty now, therefore the legacy you have left for your children is nothing other than an unjust society.

  Khem Veasna

  Children, Legacy, Clean

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• Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

  Dorothee Solle

  Heart, Mean, Anxiety

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

  Charley Reese

  Math, Moral, Wealth

  "Is Economics All There Is?" by Charley Reese, July 18, 2003.

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• To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

  Starhawk

  Integrity, Beer, Justice

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.69, Beacon Press

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