Quotes about Injustice
Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!
— Anonymous
A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves.
— Anonymous
They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.
— Anonymous
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
— William Henry Harrison
God permits suffering. He permits injustice. I know your father can be cruel and selfish at times. But there were tender moments in the beginning. He lives with bitter disappointment. He's never learned to count his blessings. If you are to rise above your circumstances.
— Francine Rivers
They didn't kill the one they judged anymore. They left them broken and wounded.
— Francine Rivers
So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing.
— Frank Peretti
Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.
— Frank Herbert
America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.
— Ronald Reagan
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
— Harold S. Kushner
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