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Unjust Quotes - Page 6

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.483

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

Thomas Watson (1692). “A Body of Practical Divinity: Consisting of Above 176 Sermons on the Lesser Catechism”, p.565

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.

James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.21, University of Virginia Press

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.96, Bantam Classics

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.340, Macmillan

Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.

"People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.56, Penguin UK