Unjust Quotes - Page 6

• It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Heart, Years, Age

  Maria Edgeworth (1855). “Tales and Novels: The absentee (concluded) Madame de Fleury. Emilie de Coulanges. The modern Griselda”, p.62

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• Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

  Desiderius Erasmus

  War

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• God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Hands, Issues, Deeds

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1910). “The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne...: Tragedies: The Queen Mother; Rosamond; Chastelard; Bothwell; Mary Stuart; Locrine; The Sisters; Marino Faliero”

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• The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reality. On the contrary, the object of dialogical action is to make it possible for the oppressed, by perceiving their adhesion, to opt to transform an unjust reality." "In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.

  Paulo Freire

  Cutting, Reality, Order

  "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 4, Unity for Liberation, 1968.

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• Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Men, Praise

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, July 14, 1889.

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• Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

  Octavio Paz

  Ideas, Evil, Drug

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.86, Arcade Publishing

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• By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.

  Booker T. Washington

  School, College, Progress

  Booker T. Washington (2014). “An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work”, p.100, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sex, Men, Rights

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• I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Thinking, World, Starting

  "Chelsea Clinton: 'I taught my parents how to text'" By Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2014.

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• When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

  Theodor Haecker

  Men, No Fear, Untrue

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• If you do not clean up your sociaty now, therefore the legacy you have left for your children is nothing other than an unjust society.

  Khem Veasna

  Children, Unjust Society, Legacy

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• A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Law, Alabama, Minorities

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, and make difficult choices. Forgivers are not content to be stuck in a quagmire. They reject the possibility that the rest of their lives will be determined by the unjust and injurious acts of another person.

  Gordon Dalbey

  Pain, Difficult Choices, People

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• See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.... Think of it. On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free.

  Earl Felton

  Ocean, Fighting, Exercise

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• It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Soul, Honor

  "The Doctrine Of The Sword". "Young India" Journal, August 11, 1920.

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• Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Real, Vices, Injustice

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• The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

  Sophocles

  Eye, Men, Justice

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

  George MacDonald

  Prayer, Children, Love You

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.9509, e-artnow

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• One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Pain, Reading

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• AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is unjust. I always say, "We are all people living with AIDS." It's not like you can avoid it. It's part of our world.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Our World, People, Like You

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Law, Duty

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• What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Evil, Slave, Standing Out

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• You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all the while draining money from important social services and public and higher education.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Fighting, Important

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Political, World, Position

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

  Amartya Sen

  Priorities, Needs, Matter

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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