49 Injustice Quotes

  • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

  • If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. – Democritus

 

  • 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

 

  • The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace. – Nafisa Joseph

 

  • Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. – Hosea Ballou

 

  • Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? – Lillian Hellman

 

  • Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed. – Rick Perlstein

 

  • When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. – Thomas Jefferson

 

  • Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice. – H. L. Mencken

 

  • Fighting injustice keeps you young. – Gloria Allred

 

  • If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. – Charles Darwin

 

  • The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. – Junius

 

  • Injustice never rules forever. – Seneca

 

  • Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste. – William Feather

 

  • Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! – Robert Burns

 

  • The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. – Plato

 

  • Delay in justice is injustice. – Walter Savage Landor

  • A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy. – John Irving

 

  • People don’t always get what they deserve in this world. – Lemony Snicket

 

  • An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. – Mary Mccarthy

 

  • Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour. – Mohammad Hamid Ansari

 

  • It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. – Saint Augustine

 

  • He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. – Plato

 

  • Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. – Horace

 

  • No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. – Aristotle

 

  • The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice. – Marty Rubin

 

  • When you take a stand against injustice inflicted upon innocent people, there will be those who will hate you for it. – Ellen J. Barrier

 

  • Injustice in the end produces independence. – Voltaire

 

  • I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage. – Chris Hayes

 

  • I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. – Charles Bukowski

 

  • Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. – Paulo Freire

 

  • There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. – Gloria Steinem

 

  • Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night. – Horace Mann

 

  • You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you’re compelled to say something. To speak out against it. – Macklemore

 

  • Injustice can never be stood for. – Amber Heard

 

  • 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

 

  • When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. – Jane Welsh Carlyle

 

  • To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. – Plato

 

  • Injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends. – Patrick O’Brian

 

  • Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. – Plato

 

  • The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see. – Bram Fischer

 

  • National injustice is a sure road to national downfall. – William Ewart Gladstone

 

  • Injustice is a scar in the surface of the earth and death to the victim soul. – Anayo Ezimuor

 

  • The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice. – Benjamin Tucker

 

  • Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. – Robert Frost

 

  • If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group. – Salma Hayek

 

  • An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

  • There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. – Howard Zinn

 

  • The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous. – James H. Cone