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Injustice Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappiness of another.”
Ivan Turgenev
2.
“There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.”
Margaret Fuller
3.
“We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.”
Jimmy Carter
4.
“I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.”
Jimmy Carter
5.
“I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948.”
Jimmy Carter
6.
“Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.”
Jimmy Carter
7.
“You couldn’t listen to sweet songs about injustice unless you expected justice and received it much of the time. You couldn’t sing songs about the end of the world unless-like the other people in that room, so beautiful with such simple things: African mats on the floor and African hangings on the wall and spears and masks-you felt that the world was going on and you were safe in it. How easy it was, in that room, to make those assumptions!”
V.S. Naipaul
8.
“If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.”
Democritus
9.
“Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.”
Plutarch
10.
“They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.”
Plutarch
11.
“The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.”
Thomas Merton
12.
“Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”
Thomas Merton
13.
“The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.”
Anton Chekhov
14.
“The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”
Stendhal
15.
“It’s terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.”
Sophocles
16.
“The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.”
Alice Walker
17.
“When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.”
Alice Walker
18.
“So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.”
Alice Walker
19.
“Hard times’ is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa’s ‘hard times’ were made harder by them.”
Alice Walker
20.
“All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
Alice Walker
21.
“Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.”
Charlie Chaplin
22.
“The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.”
Charlie Chaplin
23.
“The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.”
Henry Ward Beecher
24.
“The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.”
Henrik Ibsen
25.
“The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.”
Thomas Carlyle
26.
“At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?”
Thomas Carlyle
27.
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.”
Thomas Carlyle
28.
“To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nuisance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissible manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.”
Thomas Carlyle
29.
“Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!”
Thomas Carlyle
30.
“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.”
Thomas Carlyle
31.
“It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.”
Thomas Carlyle
32.
“What can be more calamitous than that men should be regarded as enemies and put to death, not for any crime or misdeed, but for being of independent mind?”
Baruch Spinoza
33.
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
Frederick Douglass
34.
“A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages. I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege.”
Frederick Douglass
35.
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
Frederick Douglass
36.
“The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.”
Frederick Douglass
37.
“I speak advisedly when I say this, – that killing a slave, or any colored person, in Talbot county, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the community.”
Frederick Douglass
38.
“I hear the mournful wail of millions!”
Frederick Douglass
39.
“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.”
Frederick Douglass
40.
“I esteem myself a good, persistent hater of injustice and oppression, but my resentment ceases when they cease, and I have no heart to visit upon children the sins of their fathers.”
Frederick Douglass
41.
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
Frederick Douglass
42.
“The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved.”
Frederick Douglass
43.
“The cruel injustice, the victorious crime, and the helplessness of innocence, led me to ask in my ignorance and weakness: Where is now the God of justice and mercy? and why have these wicked men the power thus to trample upon our rights, and to insult our feelings? and yet in the next moment came the consoling thought, “the day of the oppressor will come at last.”
Frederick Douglass
44.
“Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?”
Frederick Douglass
45.
“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.”
Frederick Douglass
46.
“Should a slave, when assaulted, but raise his hand in self-defense, the white assaulting party is fully justified by southern, or Maryland, public opinion, in shooting the slave down.”
Frederick Douglass
47.
“To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.”
Frederick Douglass
48.
“The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was of the ancient scribes and Pharisees, ‘They bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.”
Frederick Douglass
49.
“The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.”
Ronald Reagan
50.
“God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we’ll recognize when we’re being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.”
Joyce Meyer
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