Definition of Injustice

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Definition of Injustice
	Injustice Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. Related Definitions: Act, An, And, Another, Crime, Deed, Equity, Imposition, Iniquity, Justice, Of, Or, Sin, The, Unjust, Violation, Want, Wrong

Injustice Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert Frost

Injustice Translations

injustice in French is injustice
injustice in Norwegian is urettferdighet
injustice in Spanish is injusticia

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