Quotes on Injustice

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

You should be dynamic, and still be soft in the heart. _x000D_ You should stand against injustice and simultaneously, be compassionate within you, like a saint. _x000D_ Be a saint and a soldier, together

There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love. That you and I and all of us are incredible. I mean, we really are remarkable things. That we are, as a matter of fact, made for goodness.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

One simple change - seeking and finding peace within - could, if it were undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict and prevent injustice. World peace is a personal thing. What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.

The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.