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Quotes About Injustice

Seated at the table, high in her firmament of gin, she looked critically at her brother and his wife, remembering some real or imagined injustice of her youth, for with any proximity the constellations of some families generate among themselves an asperity that nothing can sweeten.
~ John Cheever
Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?
~ John Cowper Powys
I absolutely fu..ing hate being lied on and unappreciated.
~ Unknown
I hate being unappreciated for my work and stolen from.
~ Unknown
And those who when they commit an indecency or do injustice to their souls remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their faults-- and who forgives the faults but Allah, and (who) do not knowingly persist in what they have done.
~ Unknown
Ain't no gay filter for the cash.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
~ Nancy Mitford
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
~ Douglas Horton
Life is indeed unfair. There are times when I'd stare at the sky at night and wonder why you are my entire universe when I'm not even a little star in yours.
~ Unknown
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
~ Dennis Prager
Being a girl sucks because you get harassed and discriminated against.
~ Unknown
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me
~ Jane Rule
The next time I find myself getting upset over something petty, I'll remember the ones who are really suffering in this world. The ones who are living in poverty, the ones who are fighting for the freedom of their countries, the ones who are being terrorized and having bombs going off around them. Those are the ones who have a right to their hurt and anger. But yet alot of these ones are amazingly humble. It puts me to shame.
~ Unknown
Not all people are gallant enough to speak for justice, and most of them remain silent on injustice.
~ Unknown
America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.
~ Charles A. Reich
National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
~ Theodor Adorno
We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.
~ John Steinbeck, The Pearl
Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.
~ Jennifer Brown, Hate List
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
~ Heinrich Heine
There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.
~ Chuck Bridges
It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.
~ Helen Prejean