Injustice Quotes

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Thucydides

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

Honoré de Balzac

"Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims."

“They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever saw... I couldn't understand why they couldn't give me no justice.”

“You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation.”

“It is not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room. There are restroom facilities for white ladies and coloured women, white men and coloured men.”

“Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.”

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”

"An unjust law is itself a species of violence."

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

Desmond Tutu

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

Elie Wiesel

"An unjust law is no law at all."

Augustine of Hippo

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Desmond Tutu