Quotes about Injustice
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
- Oscar Wilde
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.
- Desmond Tutu
Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine
- Frederick Douglass
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.
- Hillary Clinton
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
- Booker T. Washington
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.
- Thomas Jefferson
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.
- Thomas Jefferson
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Civilization, therefore, or that which is so-called, has operated two ways: to make one part of society more affluent, and the other more wretched,than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.
- Thomas Paine
My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.
- Martin Luther King III
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
- Robert Frost