Quotes About Injustice

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

la propriété, c'est le vol!

The civilised labourer who gives his best effort for a bit of bread, who builds a palace and sleeps in a stable, who weaves rich fabrics and dresses in rags, and who produces everything and does without everything, is not free.

Porfirio Díaz era solito dire: "Povero Messico, così lontano da Dio e così vicino agli Stati Uniti".

Aresztowanie Gomu?ki w latach stalinizmu zmazywa?o przynajmniej cz??ciowo jego wcze?niejsze zbrodnie. To prawda, komunista, odpowiedzialny za powojenne bezece?stwa, ale przecie? sam te? przez komunistów szykanowany. Przez te lata w odosobnieniu znalaz? si? po stronie cierpi?cych Polaków. Na nikogo lepszego wówczas nie mogli liczy?.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

Los países africanos se mueren de hambre, en efecto, pero no por obra del Banco Mundial, sino de bárbaros dictadorzuelos que comparten las tesis tercermundistas del señor [Pierre] Galand, precisamente porque ellas suministran una coartada, desviando la atención popular de su propia deshonestidad, rapacidad e incompetencia y echándoles la culpa a otros de los males provocados por ellos.

To seek power by servility to the people is a disgrace, but to maintain it by terror, violence, and oppression is not a disgrace only, but an injustice.

And while it might seem to a parent that tattling is incessant, to a child that's not the case—because for every one time a child seeks a parent for help, there were fourteen other instances when he was wronged and did not run to the parent for aid.

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Setiap ketidakadilan harus dilawan, walaupun hanya dalam hati.

Saya masih berpendapat bahwa Multatuli besar jasanya kepada bangsa Indonesia, karena dialah yang menyadarkan bangsa Indonesia bahwa mereka dijajah. Sebelumnya, di bawah pengaruh Jawanisme, kebanyakan orang Indonesia bahkan tidak merasa bahwa mereka dijajah.