Injustice quotations

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◆ I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

- W.S. Gilbert99

◆ It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.

- Vincent A. Gallagher99

◆ Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

- Voltaire99

◆ Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

- Ivo Andri?99

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

- Joseph O'Connor99

◆ Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus.

- Michelle Tea99

◆ It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

- Erin Gruwell99

◆ Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

- Laura Ingalls Wilder99

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

- Derrick A. Bell99

◆ Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a table at La Tomate in Washington not two years ago—and lands on a bystander in the street below. Now, make the burning building be Europe, and the luckless man underneath be the Palestinian Arabs. Is this a historical injustice? Has the man below been made a victim, with infinite cause of complaint and indefinite justification for violent retaliation? My own reply would be a provisional 'no,' but only on these conditions. The man leaping from the burning building must still make such restitution as he can to the man who broke his fall, and must not pretend that he never even landed on him. And he must base his case on the singularity and uniqueness of the original leap. It can't, in other words, be 'leap, leap, leap' for four generations and more. The people underneath cannot be expected to tolerate leaping on this scale and of this duration, if you catch my drift. In Palestine, tread softly, for you tread on their dreams. And do not tell the Palestinians that they were never fallen upon and bruised in the first place. Do not shame yourself with the cheap lie that they were told by their leaders to run away. Also, stop saying that nobody knew how to cultivate oranges in Jaffa until the Jews showed them how. 'Making the desert bloom'—one of Yvonne's stock phrases—makes desert dwellers out of people who were the agricultural superiors of the Crusaders.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

- Martha Gellhorn99

◆ 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 Edelman99

◆ 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.

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