Injustice In The World Quotes:

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Children, Parenting, World, Injustice In The World, Great Expectations Important

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”

topic: Courage, Peace, Volunteer, Social Injustice, Justice And Injustice

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

topic: Freedom, Philosophy, Military, Justice And Injustice, Injustice In The World

It is from the 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

topic: Change, Courage, Peace, Social Injustice, Justice And Injustice

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

topic: Neutrality, Sides, Helping, Darfur, Sounds Of Silence

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.

- Desmond Tutu

source: "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

topic: Bullying, Peace, Elephants, Justice And Injustice, Injustice In The World

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

- Carl T. Rowan

source: "Wellspring: 365 Meditations to Refresh Your Soul". Book by Karen Moore (p. 263), October 1, 2011.

topic: Freedom, Block, Home, Justice And Injustice, Injustice In The World

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

- Alice Walker

topic: Literature, World, Levels, Injustice In The World

Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

topic: Believe, Men, World, Injustice In The World, Single Man

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Integrity, Character, Government, Social Equality, Injustice In The World

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.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Giving, World, Injustice, Injustice In The World

There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.

- David Wolpe

topic: Children, Pain, Heart, Injustice In The World, God Has A Plan

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

- Nafisa Joseph

topic: Children, World, Able, Injustice In The World

As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.

- Nadia Bolz-Weber

topic: Love, Christian, Teenager, Injustice In The World, Sorting

Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our vision, obscures what's true, and leads us to believe that there is injustice in the world. I sometimes say that you move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

- Byron Katie

source: Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Moving, Believe, Reality, Injustice In The World

Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery,

- Gary Haugen

topic: World, Slavery, Injustice, Injustice In The World, No Brainer

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

- Tom Morello

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Trying, World, Injustice, Injustice In The World

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Hate, Thinking, Justice, Injustice In The World

I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.

- Vincent Bugliosi

topic: Common Sense, Upset, World, Injustice In The World, Lack Of Common Sense