Top 100 Against Injustice Quotes
#1. To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.
Oswald Chambers
#2. To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
Thurgood Marshall
#3. Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.
Diane Watson
#4. In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty.
Glenn Greenwald
#6. We are all spiritual beings
and our calling is to
LOVE our neighbor,
STAND against injustice
and to show COMPASSION to ALL!
Timothy Pina
#7. Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".
Dwight Macdonald
#8. However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
Rollo May
#10. I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.
Ida B. Wells
#11. He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice.
Alex Ferguson
#12. I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#13. I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.
Paul Haggis
#14. Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
John Berger
#15. You should be dynamic, and still be soft in the heart.
You should stand against injustice and simultaneously, be compassionate within you, like a saint.
Be a saint and a soldier, together
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#16. The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
Martha Gellhorn
#17. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world ... would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner
#18. When you take a stand against injustice inflicted upon innocent people, there will be those who will hate you for it.
Ellen J. Barrier
#19. Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#20. When you grow up, son, never ever go to bed at night knowing that there was something you could have done during the day to strike a blow against injustice and you didn't do it.
Harry Belafonte
#21. The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
Marcus Garvey
#22. 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, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
Desmond Tutu
#23. I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.
Eva Gabrielsson
#24. All it takes to be a voice against injustice, is to say something against it.
Christina Engela
#25. The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.
Tariq Ramadan
#26. If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.
Desmond Tutu
#27. When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
Chuck Norris
#28. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert Kennedy
#29. Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.
Algernon Sidney
#30. For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
Evo Morales
#31. It was not heartbroken rage against injustice that froze me. I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.
Kurt Vonnegut
#32. If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.
Cherry Jones
#33. One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
Ida B. Wells
#34. Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government. It falls upon the people, in the last resort, to stand against injustice no matter where it occurs.
Ron Paul
#35. I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.
Andre Dubus
#36. You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Marian Wright Edelman
#37. The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.
Marty Rubin
#38. The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.
Beeban Kidron
#39. Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction ... it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.
Elissa Schappell
#40. Like women in general, like Aries women in particular, like redheaded Aries women in greater particular, she loathed to be misunderstood. Injustice against others outraged her, injustice against herself set her to boiling like brimstone soup.
Tom Robbins
#41. Penetrating the walls and rising to the stars, the music continued, the slow movement of the Eroica Symphony, crying out against pain, crying out against the injustice of man's mortality.
Jose Saramago
#42. Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
Jean De La Bruyere
#43. If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school. The most powerful force against corruption is one person saying "no".
Strive Masiyiwa
#44. As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.
James MacArthur
#45. He's 19 years of age, ... He's a fiery character and competitive. I think maybe when he sees things that are a bit of an injustice against him then he reacts like that.
Fergie
#46. It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.
Nelson Mandela
#47. To create the needed change ... We must become angry enough to stand up & speak out against all ABUSE & INJUSTICE against Humanity! Wrong is Wrong and NEVER can be Right!
Timothy Pina
#49. One soldier walked infront of the troop and asked me :"President ,will there be injustice when freedom comes?", I was surprised by the question , but I answered :"Yes,unfortunately there will be injustice and you will have to fight against it just like you do now against your enemies ".
Alija Izetbegovic
#50. Looking at Rita, I have long found social injustice preferable to the struggle against it.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
#51. Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
William Godwin
#52. To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
#54. Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.
Nelson Mandela
#55. Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
Zainab Salbi
#56. The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.
Camille Paglia
#57. Do not stand still for injustice. If you know something isn't right, find your strength and stand against it.
Kristen Ashley
#58. I seek ... the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
Christian Bale
#59. If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
Miguel De Unamuno
#60. That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.
John Adams
#61. I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.
Michel De Montaigne
#62. If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#63. Live your life to the fullest
and never be controlled by fear.
You will help make humanity better
when you stand up to all
injustice done against its children
Timothy Pina
#64. You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Learned Hand
#65. Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#66. Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice is major when juxtaposed against the millions of injustices that occur daily throughout the world.
Robert Ringer
#67. Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#68. Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#69. Out of the hundreds of people that refuse to speak up and turn their backs on abused and neglected parrots, it's the one that stands up against the injustice that's going to be world famous.
Jes Furhmann
#70. Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#71. Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Albert Camus
#72. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. Keeping silent when you witness injustice is to act against your own spirituality, because nothing exists apart from your inner world.
Daniel Marques
#74. It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#75. Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#76. If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.
Aysha Taryam
#77. In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.
Brian D. McLaren
#78. It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
James Madison
#79. The greatest injustice I had ever seen humans perpetrate against themselves was unwholesome as I was yet to come to terms with the pitiable situation where well-meaning people argued about the lives of soccer players who did not even know that they, the debaters, existed.
S.A. David
#81. Injustice against some...is injustice against all!
Timothy Pina
#82. Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.
Lori Foster
#83. You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
Macklemore
#84. Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.
Joyce Meyer
#85. When people struggling against an injustice have no hope that anything will ever change, they use their strength to survive; when they think that their actions matter, that same strength becomes a force for positive change.
Susan Stryker
#86. Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
Aristophanes
#87. I weigh my past against my future, but find them both admirable, cannot give either the preference, and find nothing to grumble at save the injustice of Providence that has so clearly favored me.
Franz Kafka
#88. Poetry fights against the injustice of this world. Poetry's truths are ageless.
Delano Johnson
#89. The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
Clarence Darrow
#90. If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.
Neville Chamberlain
#92. This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.
Ralph Nader
#93. It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
Lysander Spooner
#94. Social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.
Fannie Barrier Williams
#95. That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#96. If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
#97. Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
Hugo Chavez
#98. To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
Cesare Pavese
#99. United States of America? More like United States of Extraordinary Injustice Against Certain Segments of the Population All Because Rednecks Are Scared of Butt Sex.
T.J. Klune
#100. You will have to fight every day because there is so much injustice and horror to fight against.
But if you don't fight, you will grow lazy and discontent under the guise of wanting peace.
Michelle Hodkin
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