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Injustice And Oppression Quotes

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fear, Men, Injustice And Oppression
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1948). “Crusade in Europe”

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

Desmond Tutu
Hands, People, Injustice And Oppression

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Pope Francis
Heart, Mind, Injustice And Oppression
Pope Francis' address at the meeting with authorities and the diplomatic corps during his apostolic journey to Rio Sri Lanka and the Philippines, at Rizal Ceremonial Hall of the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila, w2.vatican.va. January 16, 2015.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

Desmond Tutu
Real, Europe, Injustice And Oppression
University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Charles Dickens
Dumb, Words Of Wisdom, Injustice And Oppression
Charles Dickens (2006). “Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

Rutherford B. Hayes
War, Injustice And Oppression, Justified
"Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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