Injustice quotes
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"It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary."
"Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another."
"Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness."
"It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure."
"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
"self-interest usually brings injustice with it."
"Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."
"Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice."
"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."
"No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it."
"Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege."
"A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love."
"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice."
"Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice!"
"I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice."
"Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done"
"Strict law is often great injustice."
"Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And"
"God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way."
"Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?"
