Injustice Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• One simple change - seeking and finding peace within - could, if it were undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict and prevent injustice. World peace is a personal thing. What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  War, Simple, World

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 14, 2014

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• If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Doe, Violence, Crime

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• Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.

  Kate Chopin

  Exercise, Race, People

  Kate Chopin (2011). “The Awakening and Other Writings”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

  Plato

  Running, Strong, Thinking

  Plato (0101). “Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

  Richard Rorty

  Fighting, Justice, Being Human

  Richard Rorty (1999). “Philosophy and Social Hope”, ePenguin

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• Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

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• In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suffering, Wicked, Annoying

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.814, Routledge

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• When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Change, Strong Women, Silly

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• It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Doe, Moral, Accepting

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Distance, Believe

  "Take In Tilda Swinton’s Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2015.

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• What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Spiritual, Dog, Mean

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com. June 2014.

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• Injustice can never be stood for.

  Amber Heard

  Amber, Heard

  "EXCLUSIVE: Amber Heard talks about being out in Hollywood" by J.Halterman, www.afterellen.com. December 04, 2010.

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• I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Animal, Speaks Out

  "Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Rights, Silence, Faces

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