Injustice Quotes - Page 3

• No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

  Aristotle

  Democracy, Citizens, Outrage

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• In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.

  Edmund Ezra Day

  Wise, Truth, Honesty

  "Education for Freedom and Responsibility: Selected Essays".

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• To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Situation

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• An injustice to one is a threat made to all

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Made, Threat

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• When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

  Publilius Syrus

  Judging, Innocence

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• Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

  Zainab Salbi

  Development, Faces, Violence

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

  Macklemore

  Speaks Out, Long, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

  Pythagoras

  Divinity, Dear, Hostile

  Pythagoras (2013). “The Golden Verses of Pythagoras”, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Mean, Humble

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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• Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

  Plato

  Army, Honor, Doe

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.256

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• It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Justice, Community

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• The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Justice

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.389, Best Books on

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• If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.

  June Callwood

  Obligation, Spectators, Happens

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• Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

  Plato

  Spiritual, Men, Evil

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.72, First Avenue Editions

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• It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

  Charles Peguy

  Peace, War, Justice

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• The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, Sometimes

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• Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

  Aristotle

  Ambition, Men, Desire

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• 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

  Perfect, Justice, Ethics

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• The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

  Plato

  Pain, Anger, Envy

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• To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Forgiving, Vegan, Cowardice

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• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Justice, Sides

  "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I think there are worse things than war. For example, injustice.

  George Friedman

  War, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Evil, Doe

  "Meditations".

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• No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

  Aristotle

  Responsibility, Bears, Dare

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

  James MacArthur

  Voice, Long, Use

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