#injustice

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #injustice




A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.


Sallust


#defeat #defeated #evil #good #good man

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


Natan Sharansky


#free #free societies #injustices #serious #societies

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.


Terence


#injustice #law #often

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.


Leland Stanford


#between #capital #creation #distribution #done

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.


Benjamin Tucker


#injustice #itself #justice #moment #must

Recent evidence confirms that retail prices of essential consumer goods in poor countries are not appreciably lower than in the United States or Western Europe. In fact, with deregulation and "free trade", the cost of living in many Third World cities is now higher than in the United States. My experience in Latin America and Haiti is that the prices of meat, fish and fresh vegetables are about the same as in the United States. Can you imagine eating on less than one dollar a day?


Vincent A. Gallagher


#globalization #injustice #poverty #experience

It's an insidious idea, this notion that there is life after death. The promise of a reward in the afterlife has been used as an excuse to deny help to the poor, helpless and oppressed; to explain away human misery rather than deal with it. It is an idea that is used to encourage young men and women to kill themselves, and others, so that they can become martyrs. It allows victims of injustice to be told not to worry because justice will be done in the afterlife. It depresses me to think that so many people on the planet live their lives with this notion. Can we truly fulfill our potential as a species as long as we hold on to, and encourage, the perpetuation of the lie of life after death?


Alom Shaha


#atheism #injustice #justice #life-after-death #martyrs

Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.


Susanna Clarke


#racism #mathematics

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


Laura Ingalls Wilder


#expectations #fairness #injustice #perception #society

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.


Alveda King


#because #become #binds #cannot #commit