Injustice quotes and words of wisdom |  | "An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering,
restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question." | |  | Mary McCarthy
| | | "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have
the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on
them." | | | Frederick Douglass
| | | "He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who
suffers it." | | | Plato
| | | "I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I
see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If he has a place
and work for me ? and I think He has ? I believe I am ready. This comment
was made in a private conversation with Newton Bateman, superintendent of
public instruction for the state of Illinois, a few days before the
election of 1860. During the election of 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy
used the same words in a speech to the United Steelworkers of America
convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 19, 1960. ? Freedom of
Communications, final report of the Committee on Commerce, United States
Senate, part 1, p. 286 (1961). Senate Report. 87-994. As president, he
used a variation of these words at the 10th annual presidential prayer
breakfast, March 1, 1962. ? Public Papers of the Presidents of the United
States: John F Kennedy, 1962, p. 176." | | | Abraham Lincoln
| | | "If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just,
frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their
chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our
fellows." | | | Jean Baptiste Moliére
| | | "Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." | | | Henry Louis Mencken
| | | "Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ
speech only to conceal their thoughts. Ils ne se servent de la pensée que
pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour
déguiser leurs pensées." | | | Francois Voltaire
| | | "No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to
bear it." | | | Aristotle
| | | "Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act." | | | Talmud
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Interesting Quotes
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.Mahatma Gandhi - Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce - Irish author (1882 - 1941)
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