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Unjust Society Quotes

Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our

Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

Dorothee Solle
Heart, Mean, Unjust Society
Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

Gerry Spence
Unjust Society, People, Appreciate
Gerry Spence (1989). “With justice for none: destroying an American myth”, Crown

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Confucius
Unjust Society, Justice, Honor

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Charley Reese
Math, Unjust Society, Moral
"Is Economics All There Is?" by Charley Reese, July 18, 2003.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Unjust Society, Politics

If you do not clean up your sociaty now, therefore the legacy you have left for your children is nothing other than an unjust society.

Khem Veasna
Children, Unjust Society, Legacy

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

Starhawk
Integrity, Beer, Unjust Society
Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.69, Beacon Press

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