Quotes about Injustice

Gross injustice demonstrates a basic premise: in our world, something is terribly wrong and cries out to be put right.

Abraham Lincoln once said, "I feel sorry for the man who can't feel the whip when it is laid on the other man's back.

There are too many professed Christians who never get "wrought up" about anything; they never get indignant with injustice, with corruption in high places, or with the godless traffics which barter away the souls and bodies of people.

Life has its share of joys and laughter—but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard—but God is good, and heaven is real!

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.

The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little.

In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites.

It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.

The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.