Top 100 Injustice Is Quotes
#1. To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
Thurgood Marshall
#2. To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
Desmond Tutu
#3. Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato
#5. Thus, the apex of injustice, and the root of all other injustice, is that the worth of Christ is unrecognized and men's hearts are unresponsive to His glory.
Anna Blanc
#6. Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.
Epicurus
#7. To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
Desmond Tutu
#8. While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.
Thomas Aquinas
#9. To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. PLATO, GORGIAS
Julie Garwood
#10. The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.
Tommy Makem
#11. Corruption is a virus with an antidote.
Injustice is an illness with a remedy.
Wisdom is the key to good governance;
righteousness is the key to sustaining it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#12. We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.
Al Sharpton
#13. One of the most blasphemous consequences of injustice, especially racist injustice, is that it can make a child of God doubt that he or she is a child of God.
Desmond Tutu
#15. We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.
Herbert Hoover
#16. Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Johnson
#17. Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole
#18. It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.
Madeleine Albright
#19. True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.
Miguel Ruiz
#20. 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
#21. How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?
Thomas Sowell
#22. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.
Richard Stallman
#23. I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.
Hank Azaria
#24. What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#25. 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
#27. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#28. Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
William Shakespeare
#29. We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.
Euripides
#30. The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.
Zainab Salbi
#31. Keeping silent when you witness injustice is to act against your own spirituality, because nothing exists apart from your inner world.
Daniel Marques
#32. We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
John Berger
#33. Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.
Thomas Nixon Carver
#34. The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
Plato
#35. Poverty is bad,
but so is decadence.
Tyranny is bad,
but so is chaos.
Injustice is bad,
but so is godlessness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.
James Tooley
#37. I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
Charles Bukowski
#38. 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 will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.
Desmond Tutu
#39. There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.
Marcus Garvey
#40. Injustice is plaguing the countryside! And I think pie may be the only answer.
Marcia Lynn McClure
#41. Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather
#42. To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
Plato
#44. 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
#45. I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
Chris Hayes
#46. Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.
Tim Wise
#47. Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.
Johann Lamont
#48. All it takes to be a voice against injustice, is to say something against it.
Christina Engela
#49. Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak.
Jeff Chang
#50. God is neither just nor unjust. 'No one be hurt in the slightest'; that is God's language. Justice and injustice is people's language.
Dada Bhagwan
#51. The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just.
Nafisa Haji
#52. To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.
John Dominic Crossan
#54. I read in a book the following piece of wisdom: 'He who remains silent in the face of injustice is a mute Satan.' I went out into the streets and saw Satans everywhere.
Osama Alomar
#55. He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato
#56. My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.
Bryant McGill
#57. An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
John Rawls
#58. Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.
Ginetta Sagan
#59. Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.
David Platt
#60. She is the epitome of injustice, is my mistress. I never sulk, I am no glutton, and at that time I was barely thirty years of age, although to a fourteen-year-old anyone above twenty is an ancient, and I admit that, when it comes to food, I do have the refined tastes of a connoisseur.
Wilbur Smith
#61. The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
Plato
#62. Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather.
Humphrey Cobb
#63. To use the machineries of justice to commit injustice is the deepest offense to the Father of Winter." He
Lois McMaster Bujold
#64. The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Plato
#65. An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
Martin Luther King Jr.
#67. Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.
Marc Morial
#68. If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
Che Guevara
#69. Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
#70. The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
Bram Fischer
#71. In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.
Joko Beck
#72. For the extreme of injustice is to seem to be just when one is not.
Plato
#73. 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
#74. To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Plato
#75. Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.
Bryant McGill
#76. We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world
Hilary Benn
#77. Well, damme, William, I am sorry: I am very sorry, indeed I am. But injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.
Patrick O'Brian
#78. A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
John Irving
#79. I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?
Prince Andrew
#80. The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.
Marty Rubin
#81. Injustice is ABUSE ... No matter who or where it's committed! It must be stopped at all times!
Timothy Pina
#82. Injustice is relativelyl easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H.L. Mencken
#83. You will find that even injustice is scarcely worthy of what you believe yourself to be.
William Faulkner
#84. Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.
Cornel West
#85. It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant.
Bernie Sanders
#86. The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.
Paul Robeson
#87. Many an injustice is presented as a solution and gift.
Bryant McGill
#88. The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.
Benjamin Creme
#89. Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H.L. Mencken
#90. It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. [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
#94. Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
Voltaire
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery,
Gary Haugen
#99. 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
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