Quotes about Injustice
How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cuse or cure!
- Samuel Johnson
But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind.
- John Calvin
Supposing a man not only deserves nothing good from you, but he has also provoked you with injustices and injuries—even this is not just cause for you to stop embracing him with affection and fulfilling your duties of love to him.
- John Calvin
For (such is our innate pride) we always seem to ourselves just, and upright, and wise, and holy, until we are convinced, by clear evidence, of our injustice, vileness, folly, and impurity.
- John Calvin
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
- Malcolm X
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
- Bill Gates
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
- Frederick Douglass
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
- Woodrow Wilson
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
- Dan Quayle
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.