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Injustice Quotes

"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see."

"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see."

Bram Fischer, South African Lawyer

Injustice, Prejudice

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"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."

"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."

June Jordan, American Writer

Injustice, America, Nation, Property, Reason

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"The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public."

"The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public."

Junius, Roman Satirist

Injustice, Public, Service

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"The world is an enormous injustice."

"The world is an enormous injustice."

Jules Romains, French Author

Injustice, World

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"The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad."

"The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad."

Susannah York, British Actress

Injustice, Woman

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"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."

"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."

Joseph Butler, English Clergyman

Injustice, May, Tongue, Vice

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"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"

"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"

Wynton Marsalis, American Musician

Injustice, Nation, Reason, World

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"It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones."

"It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Injustice, Ignorance, Pain, Greed, World

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"Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature."

"Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Injustice, Nature, Beauty, Appearance

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"Many an injustice is presented as a solution and gift."

"Many an injustice is presented as a solution and gift."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Injustice, Truth, Morality, Life

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"Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong."

"Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong."

Terence, Roman Writer

Injustice, Right, Wrong

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"The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation."

"The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation."

Timothy Pawlenty, American Politician

Injustice, Drugs, Fire, Nation

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"In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States."

"In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Injustice, Inequality, Justice, Class, Death

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"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."

"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."

Edgar Watson Howe, American Editor

Injustice, Wrongs

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"As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only."

"As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Injustice, Oppression, Abuse, Violence

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"Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes."

"Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Injustice, Racism, Hatred, Ignorance, Prejudice

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"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing."

"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing."

Audrey Hepburn, Belgian Actress

Injustice, Nothing, Obligation, Question

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"Police officers seem nice until they start targeting you for stops, give you a bogus speeding ticket and write fake police reports about their interactions with you."

"Police officers seem nice until they start targeting you for stops, give you a bogus speeding ticket and write fake police reports about their interactions with you."

Steven Magee, British Author

Injustice, Justice, Corruption, Experience, Truth

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"Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift."

"Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Injustice, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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"There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry."

"There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Injustice, Children, Hunger, Truth, Crime

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"Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain destruction. Put the case that he often saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen; put the case that he habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged. Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw in his daily business life he had reason to look upon as so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net,""to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow."

"Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain destruction. Put the case that he often saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen; put the case that he habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged. Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw in his daily business life he had reason to look upon as so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net,""to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Injustice, Evil, Children, Justice, Crime

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"The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor."

"The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Injustice, Poor, Pleasure, Tears, Wealth

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"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Injustice, Deception, Capitalism, Life

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"If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it."

"If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it."

David Horowitz, American Writer

Injustice, Birthday, Time, Congress, Holiday

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"Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences."

"Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Injustice, War, Sacrifice, Children

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"The legal system is blatantly rigged against the common people."

"The legal system is blatantly rigged against the common people."

Steven Magee, British Author

Injustice, Justice, Corruption, Truth, Power

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"Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary."

"Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Injustice, Censorship, Truth, Power, Wisdom

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"How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger."

"How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Injustice, Anger, Loss, Destruction

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