Quotes about injustice

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

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.

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.

God is neither just nor unjust. ‘No one be hurt in the slightest’ that is God’s language. Justice and injustice is people’s language.

The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.

Doing evil to another person doesn't prove your love and loyalty to another person it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark.

Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.

Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It’s this. He’s thinking that he can’t win the war if he doesn’t keep the people on his side. He’s thinking that he can’t keep the people on his side if the troops are running amok among the civilian population—raping the women, stealing cattle, burning houses. He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he’s thinking that it doesn’t matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mo

The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.

In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.

Among the Kimbrii the greatest shame a person can bring to himself or his clan is to start a war, but the second greatest is to submit to tyranny or injustice without a fight.

Nothing in her life makes sense.All she craves is for the pieces of the puzzle to fit together again.She is sure one day it will happen. She just doesn’t know when.She can’t fight injustice alone– for that, she needs her friends.

I can love what is broken.

She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her.

You’re my prey tonight.

We have never been outnumbered, we have only been out organized.

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

It's a new world, sweetie. We build our own destinies.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.

The choice to remain unhappy because of your hurts, pains and miseries by hanging on to them or live happily by forgiving and moving on is yours. There are lots of times that you may have felt that injustice had been done to you, that you were kind to someone who in return turned out to be ungrateful, that you loved with all your heart giving it all that you had but what you got in return was a broken heart and broken dreams, in short life has been very unfair to you. Right? So what do you want

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion.Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, b

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.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.

Where there are people, there is injustice, and that is not God’s design. It may not be our fault, but it is our fight. Let us do our part by holding up our corners.

Let your faith be in the Lord Jesus and not in your strength, to fight against ungodliness and injustice in the society.

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.

They surrounded him here, but beyond, flames licked the cabins, the incendiary glow striking a similar spark inside him from the injustice they’d faced tonight.

Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.

If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands of people who in power. That is why people who are in power are always corrupt, arrogant, violent, Aggressive, selfish, and don't care about anyone. They get away with all the bad things they do that Is criminating unlawful and injustice

It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.

The main recipients of injustice in any society are the afflicted the distressed and the troubled one, both in soul and in body.

For any display of displeasure or anger against injustice and ungodliness, there is a reward and a godly result.

Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.

It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.

You must refuse to succumb to every ungodliness and injustice.

Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other vulnerable groups of people.

A voice of one insulted by injustice will make others to be delivered from the same injustice.

Voicing out against injustice in the society is championing a just cause.

Without a measure of anger against injustice, a person, a society or a whole nation would have to live perpetually under the bondage of injustice.

There are people that are to champion the campaign and advocacy against the cycle of ungodliness and injustice in every nation.

If you are going to speak out against injustice, if you are angry at ungodliness in the society, then you have the opposing force to contend against.

Your insult by the ungodliness and injustice in the land is a force.

You must build and develop a greater force on the inside of you, in this way, you will be able to speak and stand against ungodliness and injustice in the land.

If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested by ungodliness and injustice.

Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the spread and campaign of ungodliness sweeping the land.

Whenever you are being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, endeavor to speak against it, endeavor to stand up against it, and expect to see change.

The human voice is still the most paramount vessel or weapon to use, to uphold justice and to protest against injustice.

The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.

People who don’t feel insulted by the ungodliness and injustice around them do not do anything about it.

Those who have been insulted by ungodliness and injustice could be in a good or better position to stand for or with those that are being insulted by the same.

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

It is the people who are displeased with injustice that can be a channel for social justice.

At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.

If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.

There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.

Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice.

Your voice can be made loud to speak against ungodliness and injustice and not promote it.

If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same.

When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.

The absence of justice anywhere is the presence of injustice everywhere.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war,

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis. To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell.

We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America

He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,And isn’t cured from the outside,Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,Or a trunk not having iron bands!There being injustice is like there being death.

We are powerful beyond measure,and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate.United.

People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!!

Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you.

Your anger and fury at ungodliness and injustice around you is a license given to you to fulfill a purpose.

Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether ignorantly or knowingly.

When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.

I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began."And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you

He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal pain the kind of pain that comes only when someone to whom you have never done any harm turns on you and says goodbye goodbye forever without any reason for doing it. Without any reason at all.

Only the sufferers of injustice can realize its intensity - Iman Musa Al-Kazim

It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the process of being used, examined, explored, and thrown away. It’s the process of being convinced to comply with the orders of someone who does not see me as their equal, someone who sees nothing wrong with the notion that I’m somehow lesser than they are. Rape isn’t about sex; it’s about all those other things. It’s about power.

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model ofthinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist".

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Our kingdom is not as the kingdom of this world. Our life on earth is but a pilgrimage. The soul lives on humility and patience,' at the same time screwing the poor from their last centime. They settled down among their treasures and ate and drank with princes and to the starving they said, 'Suffer. Suffer as he suffered on the cross for it is the will of God.'And anyone believes what they hear over