Quotes about Injustice
Science requires us to be freed of gross superstition and gross injustice both. 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.
- Carl Sagan
Who ain't a slave?
- Herman Melville
The absolute monopoly of the soil, the gripping and the strangling of the populace by landlords, is a purely Protestant development.
- Hilaire Belloc
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Desmond Tutu
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
- Frederick Douglass
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
- Abraham Lincoln
When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
- Shane Claiborne
In our cultural value system, we have divided up human traits between the sexes and consequently have denied each sex a part of its humanity.
- Shane Claiborne
Grace makes room for redemption. Grace offers us a vision for justice that is restorative, and dedicated to healing the wounds of injustice. But
- Shane Claiborne
People are poor not just because of their sins; they are poor because of our sins (and people are rich because of our sins). On the wall of New Jerusalem is a sign that reads, "We cannot fully recover until we help the society that made us sick recover.
- Shane Claiborne
Rosa Parks commented, "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
- Shane Claiborne
If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
- John Updike