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Injustice Quotes

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If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
Che Guevara

If you can quiver with indignation every time an injustice is perpetrated in the world, then we are allies.
Authors on Injustice Quotes: Martin Luther King, Jr. Plato Mahatma Gandhi Aristotle Ralph Nader Emile M. Cioran Gloria Allred Socrates Jean Racine Joyce Cary Horace Frederic Bastiat Baron de Montesquieu Joyce Meyer Robert A. Heinlein Publilius Syrus Ralph Waldo Emerson Edmund Burke Zainab Salbi Jules Renard Mel White Emma Goldman Che Guevara Ursula K. Le Guin Desmond Tutu Bryan Stevenson Julian Assange Anatole France Sigmund Freud Margaret Cho Patricia Hewitt Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Chrysippus
2.
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
Thurgood Marshall

To resist unfairness is the cornerstone of our American freedom.
3.
Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.
Ibn Khaldun

Regime is an establishment that obstructs inequity apart from its own.
4.
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
Ida B. Wells

There must always be a solution for wrong and injustice if we only recognize how to uncover it.
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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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must not only tend to the injuries inflicted by unfairness, we must upend it.
6.
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Thomas Aquinas

If you can coexist with unfairness without ire, you are unethical as well as inequitable.
7.
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
Bayard Rustin

Let us be incensed about unfairness, but let us not be consumed by it.
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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
Desmond Tutu

To opt for passiveness in the face of inequity is to condone that inequity.
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One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.
Francis Schaeffer

One of the greatest wrongs we do to our young people is to urge them to be orthodox. Christianity is not traditional, but revolutionary.
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Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
Che Guevara

Empathize strongly with any injustice perpetrated on anyone, anywhere in the globe.
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Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.
Bryan Stevenson

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All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.
Muhammad

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‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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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.
Clement of Alexandria

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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
Molly Ivins

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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.
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
Charles Bukowski

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Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
Demosthenes

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

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The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.
James H. Cone

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The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!
Bill Haywood

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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
Deepak Chopra

26.
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
Brad Meltzer

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

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

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It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.
Edward Glaeser

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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt

31.
To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.
Fannie Lou Hamer

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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Julian Casablancas

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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.
Ai Weiwei

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

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One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person’s kindness can save a life.
Nicky Gumbel

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If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
Bryan Stevenson

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Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.
Gustavo Gutiérrez

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I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.
Hugh Masekela

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There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
Chrysippus

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It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.
Christine Caine

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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.
Sam Ervin

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If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.
Shirin Ebadi

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There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
Margaret Mead

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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
Baron de Montesquieu

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

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Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
Ivo Andric

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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.
Simone Weil

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

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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.
Audrey Hepburn