Injustice Quotes - Page 32

• When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Community, Needs

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Powerful, War, Mind

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• Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

  Thucydides

  Sacrifice, Towers, Firsts

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the west, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.

  Aravind Adiga

  Important, Trying, India

  "Roars of anger". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Biblical, Voice

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• The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Teaching, Church, Mars

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.73, BookBaby

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• The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Attitude, Majority, Pay

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• Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Lying, Dirty, Israel

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• Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Justice, Heaven, Earth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2154, Library of Alexandria

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• I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, America, Years

  "Dean: Country needs serious discussion about race". www.cnn.com. November 6, 2003.

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• It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

  Socrates

  Suffering, Commit

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• I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Brother, Strong, Father

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Moving, Order, People

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• Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

  Ralph Nader

  Family Values, Household, Values

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Grieving, Giving

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• Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

  Tacitus

  Government, Law, Numbers

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• As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

  David Baldacci

  Citizens, Lawyer, Vindicated

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• Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Law, Action

  Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

  Peter Kreeft

  Turtles, Doors, Two

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• There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

  Jules Renard

  Justice, Littles, Noise

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.251, Tin House Books

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• Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and punish the most insignificant offenses, while maintaining themselves by the greatest of all offenses, the annihilation of individual liberty.

  Emma Goldman

  Kings, Government, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

  Euripides

  Believe, Justice, Ifs

  Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.251, Bantam Classics

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• We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Justice, Climate, Degrees

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

  John Fowles

  Optimistic, Simple, Republic

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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