quotations about injustice
Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
BRYANT MCGILL
Voice of Reason
This is an age of the world where nations are trembling and convulsed. A mighty influence is abroad, surging and heaving the world, as with an earthquake. And is America safe? Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
HUGO CLAUS
Wonder
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
HORACE MANN
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.
ROBERT INGERSOLL
lecture in Chicago, September 20, 1880
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Crainquebille
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.
PAULO COELHO
The Devil and Miss Prym
Injustice had a shape, and a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste.
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Freedom
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
W. S. GILBERT
The Mikado
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
CHARLES DICKENS
Great Expectations
Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Letters to a Young Lawyer
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
CHE GUEVARA
"Last Letter from Papa", 1965
It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.
ERIN GRUWELL
The Freedom Writers Diary
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Joseph Jones, Mar. 18, 1783
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. MENCKEN
Prejudices
Delay of justice is injustice.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.
SUZY KASSEM
Rise Up and Salute the Sun
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and again in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.
HOWARD ZINN
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.
LEW WALLACE
Ben Hur
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
ARISTOPHANES
Plutus