Grievance Quotes - Page 6

• The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

  Bayley

  Country, Rights, Law

  Forbes v. Cochrane and Cockburn, 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 159, 1824.

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• Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Real, Expression, Issues

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• We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Pain, Real

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• Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Political, Desire, Deeds

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.152, Vintage

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• Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Comfort, Bears

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• If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Loss, Ill Health, Anxiety

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.

  George Will

  Baseball, Spring, Florida

  "Reform in Baseball as In Life" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. April 2, 2001.

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• And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

  William Blackstone

  Kings, Rights, Self

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  People, Judgement, Would Be

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (1983). “Teach only love: the seven principles of attitudinal healing”

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• The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely because they are the consequences of an inhumane concept of development.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Selfish, War, Environmental

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• Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Mind, Let It Go

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Nov 23, 2011

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• Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.

  John F. Kennedy

  Self, Justice, Presidential

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• To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Felt, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.

  Samuel Adams

  Army, Rights, People

  Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.

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• Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt-then step forward with 'I am truly sorry! Let's be as we once were: friends. Let's not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time'? Let's remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Sorry

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• The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

  George Minot

  People, Mind, Stopping

  George Richards Minot (1810). “The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts: In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six. And the Rebellion Consequent Thereon”, p.39, Boston : J.W. Burditt

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• In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Bullying, Nice

  "A Passage to India".

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• She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

  Gillian Flynn

  Bird, Gone, Handful

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.49, Crown

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• I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

  Joseph Lowery

  Party, Republican, Methodists

  "Rev. Joseph Lowery, Author Ron Christie on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2006.

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• The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Government, People, Television

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the onset of economic recession in the late 1920s... The Nazis owed their spectacular to a combination of two discrete sets of factors: first, their distinctive organisation and strategy; and secondly, the wider socio-economic conditions which created climates of opinion and sets of grievances on which the Nazis could prey.

  Mary Fulbrook

  Party, Two, History

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• It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

  James Buchan

  Iraq, Southern, Kashmir

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• Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.

  St. George Tucker

  Son, Men, Land

  "A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia". Book by St. George Tucker, 1796.

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• What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry women whose major grievance and beef was with human nature and God. And they sought to reverse, undo, change, whatever, basic human nature, things that we're born with.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Feminism, Human Nature

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

  Clark Kerr

  Entrepreneur, Together, Common

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