The injustice I feel when my kids drag me out of bed by 6 most mornings is tempered and possibly even erased by the happiness I feel when eating a thick piece of whole-grain toast with a shamelessly large cup of coffee.
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
I think if you’re creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.
Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice.
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.
We all need to be a part of the fight against injustice, insecurity and irresponsibility towards children and the world.
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
I mean we just simply can’t stand for the systemic racism, social injustice and police brutality against the black community anymore. And it’s really about standing up for what’s right versus what’s wrong.
It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.
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.
I don’t want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don’t know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.
Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
You get annoyed about things in real life, and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
So many good fortunes have come my way, and I’m trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete ‘Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,’ a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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.
I’m not a victim – I’m a survivor of hunger, of hate, of different injustices that humans are facing today.
The People’s Response Act will create grant funding for the grassroots and community organizations that are doing the work to address housing, health care, economic injustice, and other inequities in our society.
I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There’s no way around it. The thing is you can never predict what the next injustice is going to be. Unfortunately, it’s part of being black and conscious in America.
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.
If I wrote in Michael Harrington’s time, roughly 50 years later when he published ‘The Other America’, I’d still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.
Telangana has been neglected and subjected to untold injustice for the last 50 years by successive ruling parties. But the maximum injustice was done to this region during the nine-year rule of Telugu Desam Party under N Chandrababu Naidu.
You have to call out injustice and not let tribalism win over.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn’t attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.
Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I’ve still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.
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.
I certainly feel injustice. I’m no foreigner to that, whether it’s real or perceived.
When I write a story, I try to write them from the perspective of victims. I try to write them from the perspective of families who’ve been done wrong, who have lost their loved ones or people who have experienced injustice.
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
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.
I find the world with its inequities and injustices to be messy, unfair, and complicated. The cosmos, on the other hand, is orderly and beautiful – this I find terribly alluring and captivating.
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.
When I visited Jerusalem and the West Bank back in 2008, I was shocked by how individual Palestinians and whole Palestinian communities were treated by the Israeli government. From the illegal settlements to daily humiliations at checkpoints, the evidence of gross injustice and the human suffering it brings is indisputable.
It’s always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.
When I was 10 and 11, my dream was to be a boy. I saw that there were so many injustices that women had to live with around me. I didn’t want to have that; I wanted to have the freedom that little boys had.
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.
Above these universal themes ‘Truth Will Set U Free’ is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.
We have not let injustice to be done to anyone. We have been following the policy of ‘justice to all, appeasement of none.’
We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.
I couldn’t find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
I think progressives understand that we are Americans at the same time as we are global citizens. We are interested first and foremost in creating peace and prosperity here at home, but we aren’t blind to the fact that injustice anywhere in the world is meaningful, important, and worth thinking about.
In the late ’90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America’s cities.
