Quotes About Injustice

This is a unique scandal in Italian football history - with Juventus as the victims of an injustice.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.

The world is what it is, unjust and tragic and full of crying shames. Don't hate me for it.

We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful.

their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks.

Humanity does not differ in any profound way; there are not essentially different species of human beings. If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice.

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

for so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

This system of discrimination, an inculcated double standard, may vary in content from culture to culture, but it is always unjust. There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all. To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.

The rule was historically used as a tool of subjugation. If a society was going to keep blacks and whites "separate but equal" as declared by the infamous Jim Crow laws in the segregated South and antimiscegenation laws (which barred interracial marriages) that at one point existed in thirty-eight states across the country, then rules were needed to determine who would fall on each side of the stark line dividing privilege from oppression.

Forgive your neighbor's injustice. Then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. —Ecclesiasticus 28:2

There are monsters in all walks of life. One doesn't need unlimited power to create victims. One only needs to be desperate.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

As they marched across the yard, at one point the black flier glanced over toward the two white men and grinned as he said, "Don't look so glum, Tommy, Hugh. I've been looking forward to this day since I was first accused of this crime. Usually lynchings don't work this way for black folks. Usually we don't get the chance to stand up in front of everyone and tell them how goddamn wrong they are

For them the Ceylon diver held his breath,And went all naked to the hungry shark;For them his ears gush'd blood; for them in deathThe seal on the cold ice with piteous barkLay full of darts; for them alone did seetheA thousand men in troubles wide and dark:Half-ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel,That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. The great flaw in the

They hurt you at home and they hit you at schoolThey hate you if you're clever and they despise a foolTill you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rulesA working class hero is something to be

In one important sense of the word it is a paradigm case of injustice if a court declares someone to be guilty of an offence of which it knows him to be innocent. More generally, a finding is unjust if it is at variance with what the relevant law and the facts together require, and particularly if it is known by the court to be so.

Despite the legacy of slavery, the near extermination of native Americans, and persistent racial, sexual, and social discrimination, the citizens of the United States could plausibly claim, in 1945, to live in the freest society on the face of the earth.

on the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress.

Christians have not always been good stewards of the message of salvation in Christ. Religious persecution, injustice, and wars have all been committed in His name. We should not partake in that spirit. When our responsibility is rightly understood, we will practice it now, and we will spend eternity studying this mystery of love.