Injustice Quotes

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

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities ...

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in so...

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter ...

I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could s...

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a c...

It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully...

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is ofte...

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...

Since most law-abiding citizens had no contact with the parole system, it was not a priority with th...

Look now—in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be count...

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...

And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, ...

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can...

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the takingit away from those who have a different comp...

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; ca...

She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provide...

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil them...

...she robbed me blind, the bitch!...and she's still at it! everyone who's ever done me wrong, robbe...

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroy...

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destr...

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resista...

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the ...

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind...

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make e...

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When...

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally use...

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all...

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that...

Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatur...

Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and ...

When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we th...

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have serve...

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control i...

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inc...

The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs ...

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Thy designs are a bottomless pit. How can I descend into this pit to examine it? Thou lookest thousa...

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you...

You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. H...

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slave...

It is a shame for anyoneto be well-known for righteousness.It is a great disgrace to feeldistress at...

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, wh...

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

Injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of...

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fight...

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who ca...

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustic...

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they...

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to ...

[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to ...

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all ...

a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They...

I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clea...

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Ma...

If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were ...

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit ...

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

A lot of people think if they’re shouting the loudest, they’ll be heard, but most people lose respec...

But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Ar...

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistic...

Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from I...

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’...

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoug...

Injustice in the end produces independence.

People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes...

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatr...

You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his m...

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Inj...

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me...

Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and...

In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though...

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surf...

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the cro...

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long eno...

But Fate does iron wedges drive,And always crowds itself betwixt.

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who h...

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent caus...

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especiall...

Nothing can justify injustice.

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery b...

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...