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Quotes About Injustice

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
~ Eglantyne Jebb
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
~ C. S. Lewis
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.
~ Eliot Engel
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
~ Olara Otunnu
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
~ Howard Zinn
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
~ Hanoi Hannah
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
~ Willy Brandt
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
~ Voltaire
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
~ Norman Cousins
Force is the weapon of the weak.
~ Ammon Hennacy
During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.
~ John Pilger
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
~ Bob Dylan
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
~ Stephen A. Douglas
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
~ Peter Ustinov
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.
~ John C. Calhoun
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
~ Simon Bolivar
"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
~ Sydney J. Harris
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.
~ Breyten Breytenbach
A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.
~ Shelby Foote
War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
~ Howard Zinn
Slavery can never be abolished.
~ James Henry Hammond