Quotes about Injustice
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
- Joseph Heller
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbors, And now they're all at one another's throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless.
- Eugene Peterson
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
- Harriet Tubman
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.
- Akiva ben Joseph
One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.
- James H. Cone
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
- Shirley Chisholm
When I looked at the white people who were doing this, consciously or not, it made me angry because so many of them were baser, less intelligent, less talented than the people they were lording it over. But the whites were in control. We could do nothing about it. We had no power. That was the way society was. I perceived that this was the way it was meant to be: things were organized to keep those who were on top up there. The country was racist all the way through.
- Shirley Chisholm
Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.
- David Platt