Injustice Quotes

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. (Richard Bach)
And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone. View quote
Montesquieu
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. View quote
Desmond Tutu
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. (Clarence Darrow)
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. View quote
Emil Cioran
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck. View quote
Joseph Heller
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. View quote
Che Guevara
Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice. View quote
James J. Corbett
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. View quote
Elihu Root
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. View quote
Harry S. Truman
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. (Edmund Burke)
Extreme law is often extreme injustice. View quote
Terence
Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it. View quote
William Godwin
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily. View quote
Stephen Fry