« All Injustice Quotes · Desmond Tutu's Page
Injustice Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there…
- Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and…
- There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love.…
- I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them…
- When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that…
- This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil…
- The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull…
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail…
- If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary,…
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
- As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the…
More Injustice Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have… — David Baldacci
- Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
- I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by… — Birch Bayh
- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat
- The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them,… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices… — John Berger
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in… — Jacob Bronowski
- The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and… — Joseph Butler