"... the keynote of government is injustice."
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"We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice."
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"The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy."
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"I think it's an injustice that most consumers going to the supermarket have so few options for fruit and vegetables to feed their families. There might be the appearance of abundance, but it's an illusion."
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"Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad."
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"If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased by their means; to all eternity, falsehoods and injustice will be the weaker because they have lived."
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"There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong."
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"Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American"
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"If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it."
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"When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it."
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"but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence."
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"Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by."
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"If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law."
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"All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom."
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"To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right."
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"Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere."
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"Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace."
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"Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad."
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"To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty."
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"I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them."
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