Quotes about Injustice
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
- Desmond Tutu
So many times, football is really unfair.
- Xabi Alonso
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- George Washington
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
- Nelson Mandela
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
- Malcolm X
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
- Albert Camus
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
- St. Augustine
A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.
- Thomas Jefferson
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
- Winston Churchill
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
- Edmund Burke
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.
- Frederick Douglass