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Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Lillian Hellman
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also. Sitting Bull
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world ... would do this, it would change the earth. William Faulkner
We fight oppression and injustice with our comrades around the world. The Baader Meinhof Complex 2005 [Der Baader Meinhof Komplex] starring Moritz Bleibtreu & Martina Gedeck & Johanna Wokalek & Nadja Uhl & Simon Licht & Alexandra Maria Lara & Susanne Bormann & Bruno Ganz et al, director Uli Edel
He was this very intelligent, intense young lawyer, and she was an au pair. But she had a very good brain. Serge opened up Beate’s eyes to what happened during the war. And their life since then has been one long very very hardly fought campaign against injustice. Guy Walters, re Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
Injustice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere. Martin Luther King
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. Martin Luther King
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. John L Lewis
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Desmond Tutu
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. Carl T Rowan
We were basing our request for the vote on inequalities and injustices and lack of opportunity. Margery Corbett Ashby, interview BBC 1972
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. Edmund Burke
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society. Aravind Adiga
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. Junius, cited Public Advertiser 14th November 1770
No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done. Ulpian, Roman jurist
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen J Gould
One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat caught in a trap. Ida B Wells
Injustice is relatively easy to bear. What stings is justice. H L Mencken, US editor
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them. Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist & socialogist
If ... the machine of government ... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Henry David Thoreau
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent. Isabel Allende
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Lillian Hellman
The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play. Sarah Norcliff Cleghorn, Through the Needle’s Eye, 1916
Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges. Sharon Welch, A Feminist Ethic of Risk
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them. Thomas Jefferson
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. Seneca
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. Democritus
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat. Charles Dickens, Bleak House
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
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
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. John Stuart Mill
I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
These books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. Franz Kafka, The Trial
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary. Che Guevara, Last Letter from Papa, letter to children written @1965, to be read in event of death
I see this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive. William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale IV iv 674-675, Autolycus