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We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
Author:
Susannah York
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Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
Author:
Stuart Wilde
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.
Author:
William Wharton
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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Author:
Noah Webster
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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.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Author:
Alice Walker
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Author:
Voltaire
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
Author:
Voltaire
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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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 of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
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Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
Author:
Ike Turner
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The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Author:
Harry Truman
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We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
Author:
Terence
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This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
Author:
Sophocles
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Author:
Socrates
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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.
Author:
Kathleen Sebelius
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Author:
Sallust
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Author:
Carl Rowan
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Author:
Elihu Root
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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Author:
Elihu Root
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The world is an enormous injustice.
Author:
Jules Romains
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Author:
Jules Renard
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But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
Author:
John Reagan
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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
Author:
John Rawls
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Author:
Plato
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Author:
Plato
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Author:
Plato
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Author:
Plato
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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.
Author:
Plato
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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Author:
Theodore Parker
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If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
Author:
Amos Oz
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We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.
Author:
Mohammed Omar
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Author:
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Author:
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
Author:
Lucretia Mott
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I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
Author:
John Mill
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
Author:
Ed Miliband
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
Author:
H. Mencken
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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
Author:
Rod McKuen
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Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.
Author:
Mary Masterson
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What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
Author:
Wynton Marsalis
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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.
Author:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
Author:
John Locke
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But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
Author:
Nigella Lawson
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Delay in justice is injustice.
Author:
Walter Landor
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One who breaks an unjust 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.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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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.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Author:
Pauline Kael
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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Author:
Junius
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The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
Author:
Nafisa Joseph
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Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
Author:
Mother Jones
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.
Author:
Eyvind Johnson
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Author:
Tahar Jelloun
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At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
Author:
Tahar Jelloun
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The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
Author:
Alija Izetbegovic
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What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
Author:
Christopher Isherwood
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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Author:
Horace
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Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Author:
Audrey Hepburn
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Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Author:
Lillian Hellman
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Author:
Joseph Heller
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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.
Author:
Learned Hand
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.
Author:
Lady Gaga
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Author:
Robert Frost
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Author:
Barney Frank
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The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
Author:
Bram Fischer
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Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
Author:
William Feather
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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.
Author:
Marian Edelman
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Author:
Frederick Douglass
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Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Author:
Mary Douglas
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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
Author:
Mary Douglas
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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.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
Author:
Nelson DeMille
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Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.
Author:
Morris Dees
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Author:
Dorothy Day
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We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Author:
Davy Crockett
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Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
Author:
James Corbett
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Author:
Eldridge Cleaver
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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
Author:
Helen Clark
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
Author:
Carol Christ
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
Author:
Iris Chang
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I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, 'Wait.' Perhaps you can. I can't. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I must stand with him.
Author:
Sandra Cason
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Author:
Julian Casablancas
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There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
Author:
James Callaghan
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Author:
Jacob Bronowski
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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
Author:
Breyten Breytenbach
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Author:
Lakhdar Brahimi
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Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
Author:
William Blum
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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.
Author:
Isaiah Berlin
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
Author:
Birch Bayh
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You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
Author:
Birch Bayh
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
Author:
Jacques Barzun
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Author:
Hosea Ballou
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Author:
Richard Bach
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I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
Author:
Gloria Arroyo
