Injustice Quotes - Page 37

• The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fighting, Animal, Abuse

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

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• It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.

  Christine Caine

  Willing, Interrupted, One Thing

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Jun 13, 2014

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• Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Country, Peace, Freedom

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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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• To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

  Charles Lamb

  Hypocrisy, Being Thankful, Add

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.390

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• It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Years, People, Justice

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• A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Children, Light, Childhood

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• For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Evil, Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Strong, Talking, Evil

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

  Bayard Rustin

  Gay, People, Black

  Source: kalamu.com

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• If we want to do away with the injustice to gays it will not be done because we get rid of the injustice to gays. It will be done because we are forwarding the effort for the elimination of injustice to all. And we will win the rights for gays, or blacks, or Hispanics, or women within the context of whether we are fighting for all.

  Bayard Rustin

  Fighting, Gay, Winning

  Source: kalamu.com

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• Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

  Plato

  Suffering, Reproach

  Plato, G. M. A. Grube (1992). “Republic (Grube Edition)”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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• The tyrant should take heed to what he doth,
  Since every victim-carrion turns to use,
  And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth,
  Against each piled injustice.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Tyrants, Use, Victim

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.297

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• Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Political, Desire, Deeds

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.152, Vintage

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• Strict law is often great injustice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Strict, Strict Laws

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• Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Ideas, Heaven, Feelings

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• So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

  Anatole France

  Law, Long, Unjust

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• The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Men, Earth

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

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• One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

  Alexandra Ripley

  Caring, World, Littles

  Alexandra Ripley (2011). “Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind”, p.471, Hachette UK

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• f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Law, Let It Go

  "Civil Disobedience". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morning, Peace, Ill Will

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1965). “Collected works”

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• It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

  Erin Gruwell

  Feelings, Feeling Sad, Energy

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

  Immanuel Kant

  People, Done, Whole

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• An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

  Eve Ensler

  Fighting, Compassion, Mad

  Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• We accept gods that don't speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and do nothing as we struggle. It's easier than accepting that there's nothing out there at all, and that, in our darkest moments, we are truly alone.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Struggle, World, Speak

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Perfect Ruin”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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