Quotes about Injustice

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

It's all stupid and narrow and unjust—but one can't make over society.

Evil prevails if good people say nothing. -

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?

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.

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.