Quotes about Injustice
Evil prevails if good people say nothing. -
— Edmund Burke
Shamed people rarely take stands against injustice. Such a stand would mean they would have to go public, which would only double the shame. Instead, once we are shamed, most of us try to make sense of it by believing we are getting what we deserve. So why would we protest?
— Edward Welch
Since the desires for power and control are in every heart, you don't have to look overseas for lawless brutality. It happens every day between parents and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives. Where there is injustice, shame will be part of its fallout.
— Edward Welch
When you are fully confident that your Father is just, you know that injustice will not prosper. You will not become angry when offenses are committed against you because you will leave it in his hands.
— Edward Welch
How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
— Albert Camus
I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.
— Albert Einstein
Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.
— Albert Einstein
For that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other. These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.
— Alexander Hamilton
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
— Bernice King
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
— Desmond Tutu
I am here, a citizen of this country, and I'm saying, 'Hey, the system failed me. I am a good citizen. I contribute to this country, and here I am sharing my story. What are you going to do now?'
— Diane Guerrero
These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.
— John Perkins