(227 quotes found)
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th”
Dorothy Thompson
“History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.”
David C. McCullough
“All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world”
Alice Walker
“If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.”
Nelson DeMille
“That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long- established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
Frederick Douglass
“An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.”
Samuel Johnson
“There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?”
Lillian Hellman
