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Quotes About Injustice

But if these men are wrong, let them suffer nothing worse than they mete out to me— these masters of injustice!
~ Sophocles
Money! Nothing worse in our lives, so current, rampant, so corrupting. Money—you demolish cities, root men from their homes, you train and twist good minds and set them on to the most atrocious schemes. No limit, you make them adept at every kind of outrage, every godless crime—money!
~ Sophocles
As much as Sajida once loved him, she thought it unjust that her daughter, forsaken by her father, should have any physical likeness to him at all.
~ Sorayya Khan
When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?
~ Ingrid Weir
When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.
~ Jay Roach
There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.
~ John Boyne
There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
~ Langston Hughes
Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.
~ Steven Magee
Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.
~ J.Adam Snyder
Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
every time this happensI see my fathermy brothermy would be sonI see myselfstop killing us
~ R.H. Sin
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~ Eli Khamarov
Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.
~ David Levithan, Invisibility
If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided
~ Sunny
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw,Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:Besides what the grim wolf with privy pawDaily devours apace, and nothing said;But that two-handed engine at the doorStands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
~ John Milton
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
~ John Milton
Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves.
~ John Milton
It is one thing to feel strongly about injustice, but those who have suffered injustice do not need feelings. They need actions. Justice is not a speech, nor even a truth. It's an activity.
~ John Mullen
The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.
~ John Newton