Quotes about Injustice

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

In conclusion, we would say that in forming Pharaoh God displayed neither justice nor injustice, but only His bare sovereignty.

Why were not these men of faith delivered like the others? Or, why were not the others suffered to be killed like these? Why should God's power interpose and rescue some and not the others? Why allow Stephen to be stoned to death, and then deliver Peter from prison?

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.