Best 618 quotes in «injustice quotes» category

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.

Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter.

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

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.

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

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

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

To be social is to be forgiving.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

To delay is injustice.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are opposite and contradictory to the ideals of Americanism. The ideals of African Internationalism promote freedom from oppression and injustice. These ideals promote freedom and independence.

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.

We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.

Years ago, I thought that if a person had experienced injustice in her life, it meant she would be fair, because she would know what it meant to be a victim of injustice. But now I am not so sure. Experiencing injustice can also make a person dangerous. Carrying a sense of revenge and anger can make a person victimize their own self.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the spread and campaign of ungodliness sweeping the land.

...a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot...

A court case is usually a competition to prove the innocence of the innocent … or the guilty.

Among the Kimbrii the greatest shame a person can bring to himself or his clan is to start a war, but the second greatest is to submit to tyranny or injustice without a fight.