Quotes About Injustice

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

Oppression is the essence of power.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.