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Quotes About Injustice

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
~ William E. Gladstone
War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
~ Eddie Vedder
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
~ Saint Augustine
Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.
~ David O. McKay
I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
~ William Blake
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
~ Martin Luther
War is horrible, but slavery is worse.
~ Winston Churchill
Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.
~ Helen Keller
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
~ Howard Zinn
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.
~ James Hillman
When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.
~ Lech Walesa
Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.
~ Malcolm X
It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
~ Michael Morpurgo
A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.
~ Muhammad Ali
Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?
~ Muhammad Ali
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
~ Victor Hugo
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
For 1, 300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.
~ Alijia Izetbegovic
It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings.
~ Major Jackson
Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.
~ Sophie Masson, 1914
Oppression is opposition.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita