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Orättvisa någonstans är orättvisa överallt. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
Vi kräver att världen ska vara exakt lika orättvis för alla! | Dragbasun |
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. | Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931-) |
Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable | L. Estrange |
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? | Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) |
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. | Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) |
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time | Mother Jones (1830-1930) |
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it | Democritus |
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice | Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) |
Extreme law is often extreme injustice | Terence (195 f.Kr.-159 f.Kr.) |
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. | Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) |
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? | Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) |
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving | William Arthur Ward |
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time | Mother Jones (1830-1930) |
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. | Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) |
He injures a fair lady that beholds her not | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable | L. Estrange |
INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it | Democritus |
Injustice never rules forever | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice | Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) |
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice | Jacques Barzun (1907-) |
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
Injustice constitutes the essence of social life. | Emil Cioran (1911-1995) |
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? | Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) |
Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970’s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
He injures a fair lady that beholds her not | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |