Best 618 quotes in «injustice quotes» category

There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

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

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

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

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

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.

To delay is injustice.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

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.

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

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

Where there is no property there is no injustice.