Quotes about Injustice
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
— Malcolm X
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
— Albert Camus
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
— St. Augustine
A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.
— Thomas Jefferson
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
— Winston Churchill
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
— Edmund Burke
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.
— Frederick Douglass
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
— Tertullian
If we allow ourselves even for a moment to contemplate the vast weight of suffering in the world, we will easily be overwhelmed with grief. This is why we develop the habit and self-protective instinct of overlooking the suffering around us.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Now just vengeance is taken only for that which is done unjustly; hence that which provokes anger is always something considered in the light of an injustice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.
— St. Thomas Aquinas