Injustice Quotes

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

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

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

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

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.