| "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice." »Heraclitus |
| "Rigid justice is the greatest injustice." »Thomas Fuller |
| "A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." »Clarence Darrow |
| "Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it." »Plato |
| "The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice." »Jules Renard |
| "A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means." »Sallust |
| "Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even." »Ann Landers |
| "We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were." »John Berger |
| "In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice." »Charles Dickens |
| "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." »Richard Bach |
| "Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice." »Arcesilaus |
| "Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." »Bill Chickering |
| "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness." »Grover Cleveland |
| "Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "Each time a person 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, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune..." »Samuel Smiles |
| "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." »Reinhold Niebuhr |
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