Injustice Quotes - Page 27

• A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

  John Irving

  Motivation, Stronger, Philanthropy

  John Irving (2012). “A Son Of The Circus”, p.103, Random House

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• RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rain, Fall, Fire

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Black And White, America, Together

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• When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

  Barney Frank

  Law, Effort, Community

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• I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Art, Struggle, Years

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

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• Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

  Plato

  Suffering, Censure

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• The world is an enormous injustice.

  Jules Romains

  World, Enormous

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• The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  School, Stories, Credit

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• First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  Experts, Different, Matter

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• And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

  Dinah Shore

  Sports, Taken, Fads

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• The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

  Max Baucus

  Shapes, Today, Facts

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• To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Country, Mean, Together

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• Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

  Rod Steiger

  Reflection, People, Film

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• Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

  Joan Cusack

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Book, Writing, Responsibility

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• I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

  John W. Snow

  Thinking, Long, Reform

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Helping Others, Years, Unitarian Church

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• Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

  Helen Garner

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

  Walter Raleigh

  Loss, Men, Damage

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• The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Hopeful, Age

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• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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• He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

  Rachel Weisz

  Fighting, Men, People

  "Weisz leads British success at Oscars". www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2006.

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• Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

  Ronald Reagan

  Unjust, Impossible, Taxes

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• Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate injustice against my people all over the world, and your support of them makes you directly responsible, just as I am directly responsible for protecting and avenging my Muslim brothers and sisters.

  Mohamed Khan

  Brother, Government, People

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• You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to do with politics than with theology. I'm disappointed that clergy would be leading such a divisive call.

  Tim McDonald

  Mean, Sunday, People

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