Injustice Quotes

• The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Justice, Form

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  If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Peace, Elephants

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014

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  There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Freedom, Philosophy, Military

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Integrity, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Unjust, Wells, Immoral

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• When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

  Brad Meltzer

  Believe, Fighting, Harder

  Brad Meltzer (2012). “Heroes for My Daughter”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

  Julian Assange

  Justice, Way, Achieve

  "Julian Assange tells SXSW audience: 'NSA has grown to be a rogue agency'" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2014.

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• No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

  Aristotle

  Democracy, Citizens, Outrage

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• Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

  Edward Bond

  Taken, Order, Law

  Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.5, A&C Black

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• If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.

  June Callwood

  Obligation, Spectators, Happens

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• I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

  Alexander Theroux

  Hate, Hypocrisy, Reason

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

  Charles Peguy

  Peace, War, Justice

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• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Justice, Sides

  "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Struggle

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Freedom

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Forgiving, Vegan, Cowardice

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• Injustice never rules forever.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Forever

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  True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  Clarence Darrow

  Memorial Day, Peace, Hate

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• Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.

  Ginetta Sagan

  Justice, Silence, Faces

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• The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Silence

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• Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Light, Corruption, Power Of Love

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• An injustice to one is a threat made to all

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Made, Threat

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• There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Long, Environmental

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• Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Freedom, Integrity, Adversity

  The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness foreword (1944)

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