Quotes about Injustice

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

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.

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?

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw daily devours apace, and nothing said; but that two-handed engine at the door stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?

The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.

The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.