Justice And Injustice Quotes

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

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.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

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!

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.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

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.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

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.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

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.

I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth.

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.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

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.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.