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~ The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? ~

Lillian Hellman

~ It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time. ~

Mother Jones

~ INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. ~

Jacques Barzun

~ 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. ~

Bishop Desmond Tutu

~ It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. ~

Robert Francis Kennedy

~ Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. ~

Hosea Ballou

~ An injustice against one is an injustice against all. ~

Kevin Jordan

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

Plato [Aristocles]

~ 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

~ Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. ~

Alice Walker

~ No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. ~

Aristotle

~ 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 a butterfly. ~

Richard David Bach

~ As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. ~

John Stuart Mill

~ Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. ~

Edward Dahlberg

~ Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ~

Emile M. Cioran

~ I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ~

Barry Goldwater

~ I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ~

Plato

~ The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do. ~

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

~ Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence. ~

Yasser Arafat

~ Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. ~

St. Augustine of Hippo

~ Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice. ~

Paolo Bacigalupi

~ Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here. ~

Dante Alighieri The Inferno

~ Conscience is the chamber of justice. ~

Origen

~ Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

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