Injustice Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

  Sergey Lavrov

  Realizing, Combat

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• It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

  Jeff Cohen

  Past, Long, Humanitarian

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• This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

  Ralph Nader

  Office, Clinton, Policy

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• What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

  Mike Farrell

  Environmental, Seeing

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• He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice.

  Alex Ferguson

  Thinking, Unfair, Wayne

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• The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.

  Ali Khamenei

  Islamic, Done, Way

  "Iran President: Israel Will Be Annihilated". www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2006.

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• I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.

  Paul Haggis

  Awards, People, Risk

  "The Oscars, minute by minute" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2006.

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• He's 19 years of age, ... He's a fiery character and competitive. I think maybe when he sees things that are a bit of an injustice against him then he reacts like that.

  Fergie

  Character, Thinking, Years

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• I think it's a complete injustice, the way it's (the trial) being done

  Dionne Warwick

  Thinking, Done, Trials

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• Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

  Diane Watson

  Legacy, Determined, Dignity

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• Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

  Khaled Hosseini

  Needs, Flocks, Wardens

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.296, A&C Black

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• When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

  Chris Avellone

  Fate, Army, Hands

  "Planescape: Torment". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

  Lech Walesa

  War, Saws, Cold

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• "It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.

  Simon Rich

  Love, Men, Ninety Nine

  Simon Rich (2013). “The Last Girlfriend on Earth”, p.23, Profile Books

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• To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

  Maya Angelou

  Anger, Soil, Should

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• Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Political, Prison

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 10), 44 BC.

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• All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Simple, People

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “On Liberty and Utilitarianism”, p.234, Bantam Classics

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• Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

  William Stafford

  Trying, Way, Reactions

  William Stafford, Kim Robert Stafford (2003). “Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War”, p.31, Milkweed Editions

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• God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Faith, Laughter, Caring

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• How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

  John Carlos

  World, Asks

  John Carlos, Dave Zirin (2011). “The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World”, p.1, Haymarket Books

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