Best 618 quotes in «injustice quotes» category

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

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.

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

"It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

I've done a lot of special things in this game, and for none of that to be considered clutch, it's an injustice.

I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well.

I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the world that when I'm actually going to read for pleasure, it's always something ridiculous about a dragon. I'm so saturated with the injustice and torment of the real world that it's really hard for me to get myself to read anything that's even set in our universe, because I'm exhausted by our universe.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.

...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

Make injustice visible.

Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to write about abuses and injustices that have already been partially corrected - you write about it after it's over.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

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

Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation. I was confident that I could find an editor and the readership for a translation: Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included. Still, I considered it a tremendous injustice that Noll had not been more widely translated and was determined to rectify it.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.

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

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person’s kindness can save a life.

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.