Quotes about Injustice
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
- Henry David Thoreau
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
- Henry Ward Beecher
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
- Herman Melville
Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
- Hillary Clinton
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- Mark Twain
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
- Ricky Gervais
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth
Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.
- Joyce Meyer
You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
- Jay-Z
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
- Charles Dickens