“It was not heartbroken rage against injustice that froze me. I had taught myself that a human being might as well look… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Passion is the rocket fuel that helps you perform at your best. It helps you get through bad days, injustices, hardships and… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is… — Barbara Stocking Copy Share Image
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
If democracy is to once again inspire a populist politics, it is crucial to develop a number of social movements in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent,… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I mean we just simply can't stand for the systemic racism, social injustice and police brutality against the black community anymore. And… — Erik Spoelstra Copy Share Image
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel so proud to see young people standing up against the injustice to stand up and say that "All lives matter."… — Ilyasah Shabazz Copy Share Image
The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just… — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us —… — Bonnie Myotai Treace Copy Share Image
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image