Best 618 quotes in «injustice quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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 so sad as the injustices of old age.

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

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

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

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 course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

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.

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.

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

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.

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.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.

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.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.

Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

Strict law is often great injustice.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.