Injustices Quotes

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire

Power, Anyone, Commit

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier

Life, Struggle, Nothing

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina

Angry, May, Happen

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

Life, Hope, Few

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Oscar Hammerstein II

Hope, Beautiful, Important

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
John L. Lewis

Future, America, Thoughtful

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Emile M. Cioran

Cannot, Crime, Rule

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.
Louis Farrakhan

Daily, May, America

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Nicolas Chamfort

Life, Time, Men

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
Alveda King

Truth, Equality, Human

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.
Paul Robeson

Today, Reason, Here

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
Jared Diamond

History, Evil, Understand

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
Natan Sharansky

Free, Serious, Within

We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.
George Papandreou

Give, Problems, Sense

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.
Andrew Cohen

Time, Past, Give

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.
Alexis Arguello

Power, Understand, Difference

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.
Gloria Allred

Women, Against, Silent

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
Harold H. Greene

Work, Revolution, Law

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
Simon Callow

Heart, Human, Social

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
Abu Bakar Bashir

Society, Him, Proud

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
Ivo Andric

At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.
Aravind Adiga

Time, Great, Society

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
Juan Goytisolo

Faith, War, End

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
Luigi Barzini

Life, Brave, Put

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.
Samuel Wilson

Future, Fight, Together

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.
Martin McGuinness

Another, Leave, State

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.
Martin McGuinness

Good, Government, Why

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.
Richard Helms

Angry, Lost, Done

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