When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
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.
To put up a show is to face life’s injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
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.
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.
Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice. It gives expression not just to our rites but also to our problems and even our values; these poems are not about rustic vacations.
There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.
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.
Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.
I’m usually torn by, ‘What’s the role of government to cure injustice?’ Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.
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.
Don’t stand back with your arms folded; step forward… There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.
I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you’ve thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.
This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.
The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.
Labour was formed to be the voice of community organisers, civic leaders and workplace activists, whose fight against poverty and injustice involved organising for their values, their principles and their loved ones.
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!
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Let’s leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
When I see a blatant injustice, I can’t keep quiet. I’ve been that way since I was a little kid.
Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it’s a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.
No, feminism isn’t ‘over.’ We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.
In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need you to take seriously the calling that is yours by virtue of going to college.
When people hear the term ‘political prisoner,’ especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they’re aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.
VAR can remove injustices, but decisions need to be taken faster.
When we see active and former NFL players uniting with owners and the League to address injustice, we can see the way football brings people together beyond the game itself.
It isn’t hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.
Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
President Obama should pardon Leonard Peltier, or at least commute his sentence, not just for humanitarian reasons, but also as a way of acknowledging the injustice suffered by Native Americans.
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade – to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
Imagine if everyone spoke out about injustices. We would be in a better place, I think.
Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he’s around.
Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian… I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
I had seen my dad overcome and work hard for the things that he has, and I hear the stories about the injustices that he faced.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.
Elie Wiesel and his book ‘Night’ have changed my life, shifting the way I see and treat people and inspiring me to fight injustices any way I am able.
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
When I was young, I also saw a lot of injustices around me lived by women.
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.
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.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.
Just as you’re allowed to be angry about injustice, it’s natural to express feelings of sadness or fear, especially if you’re exhausted by the prospect of trying to keep a brave face.
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.
The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to battle such injustices wherever these might occur.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Proprietary software is an injustice.
Slavery is America’s original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that’s what was expected of me.
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.
Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
