Quotes About Injustice

Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence.

So it was that Dantes, during the Hundred Days and after Waterloo, remained under lock and key, forgotten, if not by men, at least by God.

My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.

he cursed his fellow-man who had snatched him from his joyous life to plunge him into a dungeon; he cursed his God who had let this happen; he cried aloud to whatever powers might be that could grant him revenge and liberty.

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived of sense and perhaps dead, he gave a sigh for that unaccountable destiny which leads men to destroy each other for the interests of people who are strangers to them and who often do not even know that they exist.

one man may insult fifty—it is the privilege of weakness.

Cornelius was stretched on his couch, with broken wrists and crushed fingers. He had not confessed a crime of which he was not guilty; and now, after three days of agony, he once more breathed freely, on being informed that the judges, from whom he had expected death, were only condemning him to exile.

I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me;

El señor Morrel comprendió que nada podía intentarse; un comisario con faja no es ya un hombre, es la estatua de la ley, fría, sorda, muda.

Apoi ajunse s? se îndoiasc? de inocenÈ›a sa, ceea ce justifica oarecum ideile guvernatorului asupra alienaÈ›iei mintale, în sfârÈ™it, c?zu de la în?lÈ›imea orgoliului È™i se rug?, nu îns? lui Dumnezeu, ci oamenilor. Dumnezeu e ultima instan??. Nenorocitul care ar trebui s? înceap? cu Domnul, nu îÈ™i pune speranÈ›ele în EL, decât dup? ce le-a epuizat pe toate celelalte.

Quién soy yo?: la ley. ¿Acaso la ley tiene ojos para ver vuestra tristeza? ¿Es que la ley tiene oídos para oír vuestra dulce voz? ¿Es que la ley tiene memoria para comprender la delicadeza de vuestros sentimientos? No, señora, la ley ordena, y cuando ordena, hiere.

El señor Morrel comprendió que nada podía intentarse: un comisario con su faja no es ya un hombre, es la estatua de la ley, fría, sorda, muda.

Lors de la retraite des Napolitains, sa sÅ"ur a été violée par les soldats, qui lui ont ensuite coupé la tête et ont laissé dans la rue le corps nu et la tête coupée. Le corps et la tête ont été trouvés et pieusement recueillis par les carabiniers génois.

Men are much more forcibly struck by those inequalities which exist within the circle of the same class, than with those which may be remarked between different classes. It is more easy for them to admit slavery, than to allow several millions of citizens to exist under a load of eternal infamy and hereditary wretchedness.

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

It had been supposed, until our time, that despotism was odious, under whatever form it appeared. But it is a discovery of modern days that there are such things as legitimate tyranny and holy injustice, provided they are exercised in the name of the people.

The weak generally mistrust the justice and the reason of the strong.

Il n'y a rien de si difficile à distinguer que les nuances qui séparent un malheur immérité d'une infortune que le vice a produite. Combien de misères sont à la fois le résultat de ces deux causes!

it is certain that democracy annoys one part of the community, and that aristocracy oppresses another part.

the Negro and the Indian. These two unhappy races have nothing in common; neither birth, nor features, nor language, nor habits. Their only resemblance lies in their misfortunes. Both of them occupy an inferior rank in the country they inhabit; both suffer from tyranny; and if their wrongs are not the same, they originate, at any rate, with the same authors.

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, It's not like I hate gay people.

Life is beautiful, just very unfair.

If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.