Injustice Quotes - Page 35

• Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Attitude, Two, Stories

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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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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• Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

  Joyce Cary

  Generations, Unbearable, All Things

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics

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• I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Sorrow, Bitterness

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.5, 谷月社

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• We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Long, Doe, May

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• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  Carl Bernstein

  Struggle, People, House

  Carl Bernstein (1989). “Loyalties: A Son's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster

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• I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?

  Prince Andrew

  Years, Earning, Taxpayers

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• It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

  Prince Andrew

  Ideas, Community, Political

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

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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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• Fighting injustice keeps you young.

  Gloria Allred

  Fighting, Young

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• A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Grief, Compassion, Mind

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• If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Exercise, Inequality, Persons

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, America, United States

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• I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Brother, Blood, Picks

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

  Mark Levin

  Justice, Liberty, Veils

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• A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

  Joyce Cary

  Tragedy, World, Danger

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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• The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Women, Race, Done

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.40, University of Toronto Press

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• The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Tolerance, Permit

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice

  Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

  People, Political, Hussein

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• Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question for us is 'what will we create in this new day?' How will we make it count? How will we nourish the things that matter, and stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history? You are invited to participate in the creation of this day.

  David LaMotte

  Change, Creativity, New Day

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• This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

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• The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

  Saint Basil

  Shoes, Saint, Naked

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• Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Nature, Science, Law

  Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough”, p.556

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• The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

  Marcus Garvey

  Power, Men, Financial

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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• We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.

  Ray McGovern

  Responsibility, Rights, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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