Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you're in, when you want something - no… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem,… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day… — Hugo Claus Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I think progressives understand that we are Americans at the same time as we are global citizens. We are interested first and… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
“[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Good work is complicated and may cause damage, but inaction in the face of manifest injustice is simply opting for the harm… — David LaMotte Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of after death life! Even if there is such thing, it is God who should be worried. I… — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world.… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“You can tell yourself that the uneven ground you've had to traverse has made you nimble, and you may feel better for… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice… — John Rawls Copy Share Image