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. – John Stuart Mill
Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed. – Rick Perlstein
… the keynote of government is injustice.
Injustice boils in men’s hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time. – Mother Jones
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people. – Sidney and Beatrice Webb
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred. – Mahatma Gandhi
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. – James Callaghan
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group. – Salma Hayek
People don’t always get what they deserve in this world. – Lemony Snicket
As laws multiply, injustice increases
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. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice
Injustice never rules forever – Seneca
So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice? – Socrates
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. – Aristotle
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. – Robert F. Kennedy
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. – Plato
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
National injustice is a sure road to national downfall. – William Ewart Gladstone
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. – Marian Wright Edelman
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