Quotes about Injustice

Because things are not agreeable, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. From whom? From misery. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts.

As long as there are misérables there will be a cloud on the horizon that can become a phantom and a phantom that can become Marat.

Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable

He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601.

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

Is it right to raise one's voice when others are being silenced? Yes.

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

To make a contented slave,' [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, 'it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.' This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think. This is why reading and critical thinking are dangerous, indeed subversive, in an unjust society.

Often, superstition and injustice are imposed by the same ecclesiastical and secular authorities, working hand in glove. It is no surprise that political revolutions, scepticism about religion, and the rise of science might go together