Quotes about Injustice
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.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
- George Eliot
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
- Maya Angelou
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
- St. Augustine
Unjust laws aren't laws at all.
- St. Augustine
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
- Samuel Johnson
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
- Shirley Chisholm
It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
- Desmond Tutu
Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain