Injustice Quotes · Page 35

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it…

— Plutarch

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

— Elihu Root

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God…

— Max Lucado

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

— Chrysippus

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

— Simon Callow

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

— David Platt

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

— Michael Caine

“My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.”

— Bryant McGill

Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made…

— Sri Aurobindo

“Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of…

— Richard Henry Dana Jr

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement...…

— Liam Cunningham

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see…

— Howard Zinn

If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry…

— Francis Quarles

Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who…

— Cesar Chavez

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other…

— Frederick Douglass

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be…

— Philip Berrigan

We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's…

— Cory Booker

…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door…

— Anonymous

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs…

— Plato

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have…

— David Baldacci

The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to…

— Tariq Ramadan

“It's an insidious idea, this notion that there is life after death. The promise of a reward in the afterlife has been…

— Alom Shaha

I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.

— Daniel Lapin

If Marathi population is facing injustice I will pounce on them for Marathi, and if Hindu is being targeted I will attack…

— Raj Thackeray

I'm always wanting and willing to be a voice for my people, a voice for the injustice.

— Nafessa Williams

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

— John Rawls

“My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate…

— Auberon Waugh

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and…

— Steven Pressfield

We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.

— Sulak Sivaraksa

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from…

— Socrates

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily…

— Henry David Thoreau

“But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.”

— Charles Dickens

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

— Wole Soyinka

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real…

— Julian Fellowes

He really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater…

— Rachel Weisz

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

— Joyce Cary