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Letter "I" » injustice
«There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.»
«One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.»
Author: Ida B. Wells
| Keywords:
against, dog, Do or Die, fighting, had better, injustice, injustices, rat, trap, trapping
«That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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«The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| Keywords:
authoritarian, biological, callous, cell, chattel, divisions, injustice, Sex and, The Family, trained
«The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.»
«One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
account, injured, injury, injustice, no-account, return, Right to return, suffered
«Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash. Your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bank, cashed, cash in, cash in on, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, have got, injustice, kudos, outrage, outraged, outrages, paper money, Refusing, shame, unable
«The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplices, account, austere, heartless, injustice, innocent, performance, sacrifices, self-discipline, self-disciplined, take account, The Accomplice, The God, the self, victims, vigilance
«Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts»
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