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Quotations regarding 'Injustice'

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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
Carol P. Christ, Educator
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher (1911-  )
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
Helen Clark, New Zealander Statesman (1950-  )
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist (1935-1998)
Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
James J. Corbett, American Athlete (1866-1933)
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Davy Crockett, American Explorer (1786-1836)
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow, American Lawyer (1857-1938)
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day, American Activist (1897-1980)
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
Nelson DeMille, American Author (1943-  )
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.
Morris Dees, American Lawyer (1936-  )
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus, Greek Philosopher
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, English Novelist (1812-1870)
What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
Mary Douglas, British Scientist (1921-2007)
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Mary Douglas, British Scientist (1921-2007)
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, American Author (1817-1895)
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist (1939-  )
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather, American Author (1889-1981)
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
Bram Fischer, South African Lawyer (1908-1975)
I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.
Curt Flood, American Athlete (1938-1997)
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Barney Frank, American Politician (1940-  )
 
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