Injustice Quotes - Page 14

• Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

  Alexis Arguello

  Education, Differences, People

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• Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Easter, Hate, Justice

  Desmond Tutu (1982). “Crying in the wilderness: the struggle for justice in South Africa”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Injustice Anywhere

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• To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Self, Games, Play

  "Justice with Faith Today".

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• One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person’s kindness can save a life.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Kindness, Voice, Save A Life

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2014

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• Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Night, Sky

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.72

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• If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

  Blaise Pascal

  Ambition, Pride, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.

  Ulpian

  Want, Done, Things Done

  Corpus Iuris Civilis Digests, bk. 47, ch. 10, sec. 1. Commonly quoted as "Volenti non fit iniuria" (To a willing person it is not wrong).

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• Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Black, Social

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• Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Real, Vices, Unjust

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• ... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Destruction, Humans, Outraged

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• calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

  Anita Hill

  Equal Treatment, Special, Discrimination

  Anita Hill (2011). “Speaking Truth to Power”, p.340, Anchor

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• It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spring, Winning, Power

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 42, 1955.

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Country, War

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

  Hope Edelman

  Mourning, Beginning Middle And End, Ends

  Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.6, Da Capo Press

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• A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

  Sallust

  Wisdom, Men, Evil

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• Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

  Ralph Ellison

  Faces, Harsh, Shows

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Going to the Territory”, p.91, Vintage

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• I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

  Olive Schreiner

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

  William Godwin

  Government, Two, Community

  William Godwin (2015). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness”, p.466, Penguin UK

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• True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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• I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

  Susan Sarandon

  Eye, Justice, Live In The Moment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

  Horace

  Justice, Records, World

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

  Wim Wenders

  Music, Complaining, Hardship

  "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: 'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers… I try to bewitch the crowd.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Art, Men, Trying

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• Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Blood, Darkness

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