Unjust Quotes - Page 7

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

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.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of returning runaway slaves to their "rightful owners." The whole institution of property in human beings was an unjust social institution and should not have been maintained in existence. It is this sort of thought that I'm appealing to at the supranational level.

No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

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.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Unjust rule does not last forever.

Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.