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  • It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

    Change   Hope   Courage  
    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”
  • There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

    Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken
  • I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

    God   Country   War  
    Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)
  • Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

    Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.72, Psychology Press
  • These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

    Law   Feet   Literature  
    "Greek Lives". Book by Plutarch, translation by Robin Waterfield, p. 50, 1998.
  • Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

    Sweet   Justice   Musical  
    Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

    The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness foreword (1944)
  • Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

    Freedom   Justice   Bears  
    "Prejudices: Third Series".
  • To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

    War   Men   Law  
    Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.101, Simon and Schuster
  • One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

    Dog   Fighting   Justice  
    Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press
  • When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

    Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.207, Cambridge University Press
  • As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

    Fighting   Long   Justice  
    John Stuart Mill (2009). “The Contest in America”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.
  • We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

    Men   People   Way  
    A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA
  • Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

  • Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

  • The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

    Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

    Speech at the Guildhall, Bristol, England, 6 Sept. 1780
  • It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

    Earl Warren (1955). “The Law and the Future”
  • Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

    Children   Men   Perfect  
    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.303, Vintage
  • Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

    "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963
  • Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

    Collected in H F Jones (ed) The Notebooks of Samuel Butler (1912).
  • Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

  • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

    Wisdom   Peace   Kings  
    "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963
  • A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

    Funny   Humor   Law  
    "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.
  • My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

    God   Patriotic   Heart  
  • If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

    FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014
  • I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

    Real   Justice   Mixtures  
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