#Injustice Quotes

“If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.”

“Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.”

“When law can do no right,Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.”

“It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.”

“Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?”

“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”

“Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?”

“He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.”

“O that a lady, of one man refused,Should of another therefore be abused!”

“It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.”

“What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what we're doing to the oceans - and none of it makes any sense to me.”

“Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.”

“Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.”

“Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.”

“If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.”

“That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.”

“The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.”

“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

“Injustice in the end produces independence.”

“Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!”

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.”

“Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.”

“You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?”

“That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.”

“It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support.”

“We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.”

“If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.”

“I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!”

“Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.”

“And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.”

“I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.”

“The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.”

“I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.”

“They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.”

“All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.”

“What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.”

“Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!”

“If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”

“He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”

“It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.”

“To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.”

“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”

“The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.”

“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”

“The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.”

“There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.”

“SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?”

“Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”

“Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.”

“War knows no law except that of might.”