Injustice For One Is Injustice For All Quotes

#1. Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Dear Police:
You can't protect me and be scared of me.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#3. You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Josemaria Escriva

#4. Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Plato

#5. Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. There are too many professed Christians who never get "wrought up" about anything; they never get indignant with injustice, with corruption in high places, or with the godless traffics which barter away the souls and bodies of people.

Billy Graham

#7. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. 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

#9. I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. Anyone expecting injustice does not keep a collection of injustices.

Marianne Fredriksson

#11. Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore De Balzac

#12. I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.

Dean Koontz

#13. The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.

Frederick Romilly

#14. It would be a divine injustice to allow only those people who were learned and who had the time and money to buy expensive books to have access to true knowledge.

Paulo Coelho

#15. I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, psychologically, often physically. It's all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we're all being denied our rights.

Gloria Allred

#16. [W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

Christine De Pizan

#17. That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

Max Beerbohm

#19. 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

#20. I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Alice Walker

#21. [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.

Edward Abbey

#22. There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Mavis Staples

#23. Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Voltaire

#24. 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

#25. To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

Thurgood Marshall

#26. If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.

Marcus Garvey

#27. When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

Shane Claiborne

#28. We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

Abraham Lincoln

#29. Self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

Catherine The Great

#30. Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery,

Gary Haugen

#31. Where there is law there is injustice

Leo Tolstoy

#32. In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.

Albert Camus

#33. Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

#34. Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Chuck Robb