Injustice Quotes · Page 24

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

— Jose Rizal

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

— Richard G. Wilkinson

“I respectfully kneel to the flag with the National Football League (NFL) players to highlight injustice and corruption in the world.”

— Steven Magee

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

— Benjamin Watson

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is…

— Simone Weil

As a woman, my stance is that I'm a fighter, and in no way will I support any kind of injustice against…

— Bhumi Pednekar

“Injustice has parcelled out the world, nor is there equal division of aught save of sorrow.”

— Oscar Wilde

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for…

— Richard von Weizsaecker

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity…

— Moliere

The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.…

— Lord Byron

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow…

— William Faulkner

I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained…

— Prince Andrew

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more…

— Walter Kaufmann

When you enter into a struggle, and you genuinely believe in what you are doing, and you live under injustice, and you…

— Roy Bennett

I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of…

— Woody Allen

Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the conying so. And, tinued occupation…

— Robert Fisk

Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the…

— Amos Oz

Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in…

— Langston Hughes

While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If I see any sort of injustice, I can fight like a dog. I'm not frightened to be outspoken and I can…

— Rosamund Pike

Just providing information about how bad things are, or the statistics and data on incarceration by themselves, does lead to more depression…

— Michelle Alexander

For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should…

— Martin Amis

“There is no justice in this world. No single punishment can correct an injustice, because what is past cannot be changed, and…

— Goce Smilevski

I think with election conducted with pick and choose policy, injustice has been done to Punjab and Punjabiyat.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

— Mark Ruffalo

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step…

— Nelson DeMille

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.”

— Arcesilaus

“If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it”

— Democritus

A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

— Jean de la Bruyere

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

— Shami Chakrabarti

Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.

— George Washington

Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

— Bayard Rustin

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

— Shaun King

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

— Mohammad Hamid Ansari

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

— Chen Guangcheng

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

— Avery Bradley

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

— Jeff Cohen