Injustice Quotes

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.

Grover Cleveland

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

L. Estrange

Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr

Injustice never rules forever.

Seneca

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

Terence

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

Plato [Aristocles]

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

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Many groups that have the power to make life decisions for others don't ever have to live out the consequences.

Frances Fox Piven

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Robert Francis Kennedy

In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.

William Arthur Ward

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

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Seneca

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Samuel Johnson

Injustice constitutes the essence of social life.

Emil Cioran

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

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