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“We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.”

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Book:American Individualism

Source: American Individualism

“Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.”

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Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.”

“Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.”

“I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.”

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Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.”

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Author:Alexander Zinoviev