"To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo."
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"No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity."
"Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so."
"Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo."
"I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice."
"To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman."
"To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice."
"I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice."
"When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour."
"A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice."
"Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity."
"To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it."
"Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them."
"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."
"I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice."
"Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power."
"It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited."
"I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?"
"A God all mercy is a God unjust."
"The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice."