Injustice Quotes - Page 20

• There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

  James Callaghan

  Loss, British Soldiers, Citizens

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• We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the many laws, which have been obliged to be passed to protect them from their nearest male relatives, are a sufficient answer...They are evidently the production of men legislating for their own most obvious interest...without the slightest reference to the injustice they were committing against women.

  Marion Kirkland Reid

  Men, Law, Words Of Wisdom

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• That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Effort, Inspire

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• Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Anger, Society, Identity

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Real, War

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  Elihu Root

  Ambition, Perfection, Selfishness

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Men, Law

  "My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy".

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• The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Past, Voice

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press

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• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

  Ulrich Beck

  Hate, Feelings, Historical

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• Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our vision, obscures what's true, and leads us to believe that there is injustice in the world. I sometimes say that you move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

  Byron Katie

  Moving, Believe, Reality

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

  John Dear

  Acceptance, Order, Suffering And Death

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.82, Image

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• Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.

  Tony Benn

  Educational, Exercise, Direct Action

  "New Politics" Magazine, 1970.

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• I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Children, Party, Moving

  In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1973) vol. 2, ch. 11

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• I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

  William Sloane Coffin

  People, Disorder, Produce

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• The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Adversity, Heaven

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.81, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Ignorance, Destiny

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Needs, Care, Modern

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• But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

  Sue Kelly

  Promise, Needs, Generations

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• Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

  Shane Claiborne

  Hands, Feet, World

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• The invasion of Lebanon by Israel .. is a monstrous injustice. I side with the resistance to that injustice. Hizbollah is leading that resistance. I do not hesitate to say .. that I glorify that resistance. I glorify the Hizbollah national resistance movement, and I glorify the leader of Hizbollah, Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

  George Galloway

  Israel, Leader, Resistance

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• Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.

  Georges Bizet

  Strong, Fall, Mean

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• Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

  Morris Dees

  Rights, Years, Rays

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• At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Real, Army, Bullets

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• But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

  Nigella Lawson

  Literature, Vicious, Sentences

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