Quotes about Injustice
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
- Thomas Paine
Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can commit injustice by doing nothing.
- Marcus Aurelius
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
- Edmund Burke
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
- Nelson Mandela
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.
- Ronald Reagan
Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.
- Billy Graham
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
- Malcolm X
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
- Muhammad Ali
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
- Henry David Thoreau
Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.