#injustice

If you think Atticus Finch went home at night and slept easy because he knew he was doing the right thing, you're wrong....Because even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone. Because every woman and man, no matter their color or their religion, is entitled to a good defense. And because Jem and Scout would grow up to be like their father, spreading his wisdom, understanding his compassion and sharing his strength which are the only, the only weapons we have against injustice. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#to-kill-a-mockingbird #religion

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#bring #closer #goal #hope #injustice

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time. ↗

— Mother Jones

#cauldron #does #forth #fullness #hearts

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#everywhere #injustice #justice #threat

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#accepts #arouse #breaks #community #conscience

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#arouse #breaks #community #conscience #expressing

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#arouse #breaks #community #conscience #expressing

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

— Carl T. Rowan

#become #block #discrimination #easier #half

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#free #free societies #injustices #serious #societies

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#get #hate #help #i #injustice