Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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.
I’ve always been interested in justice. I think what is happening to the Palestinians represents the ultimate injustice. I also hate bullies and the effect of them, the way people side with them out of fear. The Israelis are the schoolyard bullies, with England and the United States siding with them.
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
The British people have a global outlook, they are generous, and when they see suffering and injustice they are motivated to act.
I ran for office because I believe personally that the cycle of poverty is systemic, is rooted in racial injustice, and is rooted in gender bias. It is violence. It is trauma. It is a crime. But, most importantly, it is our policy choice.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It’s a mess.
Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith.
I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.
There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country… I stand with those opposing such bigotry.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
I think I’ve always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and fight injustices and fight violence, and then being an artist, which is a very different strain.
While there’s capitalism, there’ll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God.
The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking.
We use social media as a platform to speak on issues that we feel passionate about and I see people debating on Twitter all the time about social injustices.
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
Sometimes it takes a child to raise a village – or to take down an injustice.
Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.
I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.
But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from their own best energies and talents.
Nothing would catch me off guard, because I understand the world I live in. I understand it very well. And the world I live in is not necessarily a fair or just world. I have dealt with these injustices for the bigger part of my life.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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?
I’m very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it’s very hard for me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If we won’t fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.
Our long memories hold the stories of what our people accomplished, but they also hold the prejudices, the injustices, the harm that we’ve received from others.
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Well you know, all law is about injustice.
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
Delay in justice is injustice.
Injustice drives me crazy!
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world – a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
If I get incensed about some injustice, you can’t make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
When you challenge other people’s ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.
It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.
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.
I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.
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.
The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.
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.
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.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Witnessing injustice, in person, leaves an indelible mark.
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.
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.
