105 quotes found
“Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that ...”
“And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperatur...”
“Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and enlarges.”
“My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.”
“Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense and heavy clouds, are rising, slowly it is true, but not ...”
“Its a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots.”
“I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in as soon as you breathe, and pretty soon you don't even realize that while y...”
“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets of passage were rescinded and the bailiffs of God took back t...”
“Sentimentality about Lee's story grew even as the harder truths of the book took no root. The story of an innocent black man bravely defended by a white lawyer in the 1930s fascinated millions of r...”
“If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were hundreds of thousands of them throughout the country. If this state of affairs had lasted for two...”
“Poverty is not just a sad accident. Yes, its partly about lack of jobs, but its also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to the...”
“If you see an injustice, and dont move to right it when you have a chance, history wont forget that, either.”
“America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill.”
“Injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.”
“You can not be lazy and expect everyone to like you. That will be injustice.”
“Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness,Could never be frien...”
“When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.”
“The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.”
“If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.”
“If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it”
