Best 618 quotes in «injustice quotes» category

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

God gave us creation to enjoy it. I believe this is the reason we fight against injustice so that all of creation can experience the beauty of God's goodness and grace.

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.