Injustice Quotes - Page 12

• The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!

  Bill Haywood

  Gold, Mills, Owners

  "The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Bill Haywood (p. 171), 1929.

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• We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.

  Jules Renard

  Greater

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• Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Art, Violence, Facts

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (2016). “The Manifesto of Futurism”, p.9, Passerino Editore

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• I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

  Stevie Wonder

  Writing, People, Able

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.

  John Nichol

  Kings, Monarchy, Can Do

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• He held to the idea that the Jewish people, so often victims of injustice and persecution, should have a state where they could be independent and free. Think good or ill of Arik Sharon, agree or disagree with him, but that calling - a noble one - was plain and unalloyed.

  Ariel Sharon

  Independent, Thinking, Should Have

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• The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.

  Frederick Romilly

  Rights

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• Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here.

  Khalid Abdul Muhammad

  Brother, Real, Racism

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• If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.

  Derrick Jensen

  Community, Ifs

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.19, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Thinking, Justice

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• I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

  Ariel Pink

  Country, Bully, Police

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  Zainab Salbi

  America, Choices, Grew Up

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• The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Faces, Persevere, Command

  "Joni Eareckson Tada on Wilberforce Award, 'Better Off Dead Than Disabled' Mentality". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  Racism, African American, Cameras

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• When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Justice, Suffering

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.434, Hamilton Books

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• I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Law, Justice

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.

  Francis Quarles

  Sorry, Journey, Pace

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• We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Justice, Trying, Demand

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.175, Shambhala Publications

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• How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Stupid, Mean

  YouTube Chanel "Secular Talk"/ "Stephen Fry Annihilates God", www.youtube.com. January 31, 2015.

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• Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Christian, Country, Atheism

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• To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

  Zoe Akins

  Impossible, Blame, Infamous

  Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”

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• An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

  John Rawls

  Religion, Morality, Tolerable

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

  Plutarch

  Wisdom, Justice, Politics

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.629, Modern Library

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• Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

  Eliza Haywood

  Unjust, One Thing

  Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.212, Broadview Press

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• Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

  Russell Brand

  Mean, Tides, Violence

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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