Quotes about Injustice
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
— Desmond Tutu
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
— Martin Luther
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
— Margaret Atwood
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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
— Rob Bell
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
— Victor Hugo
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's all stupid and narrow and unjust—but one can't make over society.
— Edith Wharton
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