#injustice

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#economic #experience #how #injustice #planted

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

— Voltaire

#conceal #employ #injustice #men #only

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. ↗

— Alice Walker

#current #history #injustice #level #some

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #been #believe #child #delay

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

#bible #contained #crime #evils #injustice

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#deeper #denial #even #extensive #falsely

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#bureaucratic #capitalism #caste #collective #created

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#courteous #courtesy #equally #injustice #little

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. Bell

#equality #ethics #injustice #meritocracy #prosperity

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#anyone #away #books #done #family