Injustice Quotes

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice, Anywhere, Threat

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Economic, Cause, Necessary

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu

Appreciate, Side, Elephant

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Government, Law

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin

Law, Sometimes, Becomes

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Audrey Hepburn

Nothing, Give, Question

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass

Find, Wrong, Measure

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates

Evil, Him, Return

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

Time, May, Times

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau

Justice, Sweet, Musical

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert Frost

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez

Life, Time, God

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach

Ignorance, End, Belief

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers

Money, Job, Maturity

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato

Made, Wretched, Suffers

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato

Fear, Suffering, Afraid

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Plato

Reach, Highest, Deemed

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow

Patriotism, True, Else

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Plato

Soul, Last, Worst

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato

Nature, Equality, Justice

Injustice in the end produces independence.
Voltaire

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire

Men, Thought, Thoughts

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
H. L. Mencken

Justice, Easy, Bear

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Kingdom, Founded, Lasts

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

Children, Nothing, Felt

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Poor, Cruelty

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. Truman

War, Experience, Social

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