Quotes about Injustice
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
— Charles Dickens
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.
— Martin Niemoller
Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God.
— Tony Evans
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
— Abraham Lincoln
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
— Tertullian
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
— St. Augustine
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
— George Eliot
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
— Ayn Rand
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
— Michelle Obama