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Quotes About Injustice

do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice? It
~ Xenophon
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
~ Yann Martel
If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! -- do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.
~ Yann Martel
The sad fact is that there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, as the unjust taking of a loved being.
~ Yann Martel
Animals are also poisoned. And there are indecencies
~ Yann Martel
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual." But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
~ Yann Martel
The spiritual reformer cannot expect to have the majority on his side. He must be prepared to stand alone like Ezekiel and Jeremy. He must take as his example St. Augustine besieged by the Vandals at Hippo, or St. Gregory preaching at Rome with the Lombards at the gates. For the true helpers of the world are the poor in spirit, the men who bear the sign of the cross on their foreheads, who refuse to be overcome by the triumph of injustice and put their sole trust in the salvation of God.
~ Unknown
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?
~ Christopher Hitchens
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books.
~ Christopher Isherwood
The tragedy of polytheism and idolatry is not the arithmetic (many gods instead of one), but that they exchange the only true source of salvation for lifeless and powerless substitutes, and in doing so, introduce injustice, bondage, and cruelty into human life (cf. Rom. 1:21–32).
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
Why would you shed a tear for them when they in return crack a smile for your loss because of the impending extra money they will receive in their next paycheck for sitting at your loved ones crime scene of 6 hours because of the overtime they will accrue.
~ Unknown
The number of the Jews murdered in a beastly fashion in the Wilno [Vilna] area and in Lithuania is put at 300,000.
~ Christopher Simpson
Genocidal societies also show a marked tendency toward what psychologists call "just-world" thinking: Victims are believed to have brought their suffering upon themselves and, thus, to deserve what they get.3
~ Christopher Simpson
When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
~ Chuck Norris
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
~ Cicero
In his experience, the evil lived on while the innocent died.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Why did he deserve to live when everyone around him died?
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Perbedaan warna kulit yang anda anut membangkitkan perasaan jijik orang Asia! Sampai-sampai ke dalam film anda memperlihatkan kerendahan dari bansa kulit berwarna!
~ Cindy Adams
Kita tidak membenci orang Belanda. Kita hanya membenci pemerintah kolonial. Tetapi bila ada seseorang yang lapar atau menderita sakit, kita sendiri akan membagi makanan atau darah kita kepadanya untuk mengurangi penderitaannya. Politik adalah politik, tapi perikemanusiaan adalah perikemanusiaan.
~ Cindy Adams
We live in a world that has popularized Black people showing the same hate towards white people that people like Martin Luther King Jr. died fighting to overcome. It's sad. Sad as hell.
~ Unknown
She wanted to stop time and hold on to all of the memories, because the greatest injustice was that those memories would fade into sepia tones. Her brain wouldn't remember what her heart had seen. Not perfectly. Not in full color. He was gone, and soon time would rob her of what little she had left.
~ Unknown
Fascism is the punishment inflicted on the proletariat for not having continued the revolution begun in Russia.
~ Clara Zetkin
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. -- On Eleanor Roosevelt
~ Clare Boothe Luce
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
~ Clarence Darrow