Unjust Quotes - Page 10

• We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

  Jacque Fresco

  Integrity, Fighting, Equality

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.

  Murray Rothbard

  War, Government, Claims

  Interview in Reason magazine, February 1973.

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• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  Albert Camus

  Meaningful, Hope, Men

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

  Long, Silent

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• The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

  Ted Olson

  Marriage, Hair, Ideas

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• We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Born, Grows, Prepared

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• As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even the most unjust and cruel things, as well as all seemingly pointless and undeserved sufferings, have been permitted by God as a glorious opportunity for us to react to them in such a way that our Lord and Savior is able to produce in us, little by little, his own lovely character.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Christian, Children, Character

  "Hinds' Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey".

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• Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Powerful, Fall, Order

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.317, Broadway Books

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• If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.

  Umar

  Praying, Praise, Rulers

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• The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

  Lord Acton

  People

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• I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

  Donald Miller

  Greatness, Thinking, Grieving

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

  Cornel West

  Successful, Greatness, People

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• On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.

  George MacDonald

  Friday, Jesus, Son

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• You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mean, Animal, Ideas

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• The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.

  Mortimer Adler

  Life, Men, Judging

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Light

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Noble, Height

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

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• There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

  Thomas Watson

  Justice, Soul, Sin

  Thomas Watson (1692). “A Body of Practical Divinity: Consisting of Above 176 Sermons on the Lesser Catechism”, p.565

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• A God all mercy is a God unjust.

  Edward Young

  Injustice, Mercy, Secret Life

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 4' l. 233

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• Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Self, Hands, Giving

  "On Grief and Reason: Essays". Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1995.

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• In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

  Rufus Jones

  Fighting, Economic, Settling

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• When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

  William Boyd

  Bereavement, Age, Boards

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• When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

  Sam Harris

  People, Suffering, Religion

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• Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

  Edward Young

  Nature, Men, Injustice

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts, etc”, p.16

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• Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

  Ronald Reagan

  Impossible, Injustice, Taxes

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