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“Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.”

Suffering Names Compassion Bears Skills Injustice Witness Hesitation Lovingkindness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice is major when juxtaposed against the millions of injustices that occur daily throughout the world.”

World Long Problem Term Break Millions Majors Negative Adversity Injustice Long Term

Book:Getting what You Want: The Seven Principles of Rational Living

Source: Getting what You Want: The Seven Principles of Rational Living

“There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.”

Men Two Problem Used Adversity Injustice Damage Two Things Unendurable

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”

World Way Giving Use Would Be Earth Opportunity Justice Promise Injustice Discouraged Humane Gifts Of Life Limited Time Time On Earth

Book:The Words of César Chávez

Source: The Words of César Chávez

“About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.”

World May Stills Real Able Grows Can Do Half Virtue Speech Roots Faults Injustice Tongue Harm Horrible Cruelty Real Friends Quarrels Extremity

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.”

Men Humans Doe Whole Action Purpose Waiting Grace Willing Election Injustice Gods Will Doctrine Servant Dependent Sinner Free Will Covenant Human Actions Debtors

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.”

Ifs Firsts Real Would Be Humanity Steps Charity Injustice First Steps Barbarism Unkindness

Book:By the rivers of Babylon: a novel

Source: By the rivers of Babylon: a novel

“We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.”

World Should Happens Fighting Nations Laughing Hell Election Injustice March Divided Disgusting Travesty March On Washington

Author:Donald Trump

“Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot by all and despised, accepting injustice, contempt and mockery; unless he undergoes all these things with joy for the sake of the Lord, not claiming any kind of human reward whatsoever - glory or honor or earthly pleasures - he cannot become a true Christian.”

Men Giving Humans Kind Self Christian Joy Spirit Pleasure Accepting Lord Humility Honor Glory Crosses Rewards Injustice Sake Casts Contempt Despised Mockery Abasement

Author:Mark the Evangelist

“Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.”

Two Government Purpose Individual Community Common Liberty Injustice Defense Invasion Suppression Common Defense

Book:Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness

Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness

“Violence does even justice unjustly.”

Doe Justice Violence Wise Words Injustice Cruelty Aggression Acts Of Violence Unjustified

Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

“As Dr. King said, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is that creed of the civil rights movement that still motivates us today...So today, we take up the cause of joining arms with our immigrant brothers and sisters in that spirit... to lend a hand to those who confront injustice as a result of a broken immigration system.”

“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.”

Men Feels Kind Animal Poor Injustice Cruelty Comrade Animal Cruelty Treachery

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody”

Threat Injustice Clever

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”

Men Inspirational Motivational Success Law Hope Peace Change Justice Courage Rights This World Politician Ideals Social Justice Charity Injustice Human Rights Strikes Lawyer Tiny Oppression Changing The World Making A Difference Daring Diverse Senators Volunteer Improving Human Spirit World History Peace War Ripple Peace And Justice Volunteerism Positive Change Helping Each Other Peace Justice Human Freedom Black History Month Charity And Giving Words Of Kindness Giving To Others Acts Of Courage Social Injustice Law And Justice Never Lose Hope Philanthropy Giving Justice And Injustice Philanthropy Inspiration Acts Of Charity Ideal Man Injustice And Oppression Volunteerism And Service Peace With Others Legal Rights Volunteer Appreciation Human Equality Justice Equality Volunteers Making A Difference Inspiring Volunteer Hope Courage Daring To Be Great Injustice In The World Acts Of Heroism Heroic Acts Unpopular Decisions

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.”

Justice Bears Social Justice Injustice Burden Commit

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.”

Ifs Want Giving Remember Law Culture Justice Forget Crime Diversity Eternal Social Justice Injustice Compromise

Book:Crossroads: Being the Works of Subhas Chandra Bose, 1938-1940

Source: Crossroads: Being the Works of Subhas Chandra Bose, 1938-1940

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”

Years Culture Justice Answers Diversity Victim Social Justice Constant Slave Injustice Cruelty Celebration Fourth Gross July Abolition Days Of The Year

Author:Frederick Douglass

“National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.”

Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice Injustice Downfall

Author:William E. Gladstone

“If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.”

Ifs Knows Wish Justice Diversity Social Justice Injustice Pursue

Author:Eugenio Maria de Hostos

“One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.”

Facts Suffering Justice White Diversity Standing Social Justice Injustice Folks Rebuke

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.”

Ideas Justice Moral Atheism Social Justice Slave Injustice Positive Atheism No Idea Passivity

Author:Lucretia Mott

“True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.”

Force Justice Enemy Diversity Social Justice Injustice Privilege Oppression Revolutionary True Religion

Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.”

Ends Justice Answers Silence Diversity Social Justice Critics Injustice

Author:Paul Robeson

“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”

Remember Justice Civilization Diversity Hatred Social Justice Injustice Oppression Wedges Injustice And Oppression

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.”

War Political Justice Economic Building Conflict Disease Hatred Dollars Injustice International Attacking Disobedience Starvation Servitude Preoccupation Illiteracy World Hunger

Author:Daniel Berrigan

“If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.”

Ifs Energy Can Do Justice Injustice Complaining

Author:Ben Cohen

“Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.”

Want Feels Humans Helping Justice Compassion Dignity Victim Injustice Cease Oppression Tire Restoration Human Dignity Injustice And Oppression

Author:Poul Hartling

“Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.”

“An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.”

Justice Threat Injustice Human Rights Committed

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice and suffering and dishonesty. This needs to come into the open or there will never be peace in the hearts of us violated.”

Needs Should Heart Suffering Justice Situation Majors Concern Injustice Transparency Dishonesty

Author:Beyers Naude

“For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.”

Needs Firsts Ideas Done Lying Women Justice Rights Demand Stones Injustice Corners Graves Womens Rights Mistress Cradle Wrong Ideas

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.”

Faces Justice Silence Injustice Human Rights Complicity

Author:Ginetta Sagan

“I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.”

Needs Trying Eye Turns Justice Blind Injustice Living My Life Live In The Moment Blind Eyes

Author:Susan Sarandon

“We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.”

World Enough Suffering Justice Party Program Strategy Injustice Organisation

Book:Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society

Source: Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society

“One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”

Dies Fighting Justice Dog Injustice Traps Rats Justice And Injustice

Book:Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

“It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.”

Would Be Social Class Type Injustice Educational Perceive Dominant Naive Subordinates Social Injustice

Book:The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.”

People Facts Shows Causes Religious Injustice Educational Oppression Primaries Disorder Investigation Religious Faith Uneducated Irregularity Unrighteousness

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”

Literature Knowledge Injustice

Author:Horace

“Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.”

Men Made Injustice Complaining Arrogance Forgetfulness Ingratitude Rudeness

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Passivity is the same as defending injustice.”

Injustice Passivity Passivity Is

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.”

Has Beens Past Form Moral Style Judging Morality Judgment Understood Injustice Minimalist Hasty Moral Judgment

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.”

“You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.”

“Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.”

Spiritual Poverty Injustice Restriction

Book:The Trick to Money is Having Some

Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some

“The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it”

Government Social Causes Poverty Roots Injustice Root Cause Social Injustice Bad Government Causes Of Poverty Abet

Author:Colin Powell

“We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice.”

“Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.”

Men Children Nations Black White Movement Fields Men And Women Red Injustice Flying Backgrounds California Flames Dry Valleys Flags Eagles

Author:Cesar Chavez

“Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.”

Law Justice Injustice Mixtures

Author:Ambrose Bierce

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