(227 quotes found)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts”
Voltaire
“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
“Injustice in the end produces independence.”
“It is from 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.”
Robert Francis Kennedy
“One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”
Ida B. Wells
“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.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu
“If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
Henry David Thoreau
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.”
“A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.”
Seneca
