Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades."
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Injustice
309 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself."
Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, Theologian
"If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world."
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"Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice."
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"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves."
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"It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps."
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"I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them."
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"Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love."
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"Passivity is the same as defending injustice."
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"...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly."
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"Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest."
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"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask."
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"If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality."
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"To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God."
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"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing."
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"Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality."
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"Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil."
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"We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice."
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"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice."
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"I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me."
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"I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice"
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"For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream."
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"The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice."
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