Quotes tagged ‘Injustice’

“Lucky Day: Wherever there is injustice, you will find us. Ned Nederlander: Wherever there is suffering, we'll be there. Dusty Bottoms: Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find... Lucky Day, Ned Nederlander, Dusty Bottoms: The Three Amigos!”

— Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman, Lucky Day, Steve Martin, imdb.com

“Here's how two reporters turned a local miscarriage of justice into national news.”

— Gabrielle Bruney, esquire.com

“The founders were imperfect geniuses. They wrote a lot of our bigotries into [the Constitution]. ... If you think about how we have overcome those things, it's always been by creating, first, calls to consciousness, speaking truth about the injustices, and then bringing together those uncommon coali…”

— Cory Booker, npr.org

“As a satanist, I believe that confronting injustice is an expression of one’s satanic faith.”

— Anonymous Female Satanist, imdb.com

“Rage at injustice is universal. The ability to strike back is not.”

— Steve Blackman, Quellcrist Falconer, Renée Elise Goldsberry, imdb.com

“Wherever there’s injustice in the world, there’s always a fairy.”

— Brian Ridings, David H. Goodman, Mr. Gold, Robert Carlyle, imdb.com

“I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.”

— Hugo Chavez, abcnews.go.com

“Those who believe that racial preferences can help to 'even the score' display, and reinforce, a manner of thinking about race that was the source of the injustice and that will, if it endures within our society, be the source of more injustice still.”

— Antonin Scalia, en.wikipedia.org

“People of color have been marginalized for too long. District Attorneys dismiss their murders at the hands of the police. Employers punish those who take a knee. The media ignores and demonizes them—even when they are victims.”

— Eugene Gu, MD, twitter.com

“...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“I lamented therefore the Impolicy, tyranny, and Injustice, which with a Sovereign Contempt of the People of America, studiously neglected to take their Collective Sentiments of the British proposals of Peace, and to negotiate under a suspension of Arms, for an adjustment of differences, as a dangero…”

— Benedict Arnold, teachingamericanhistory.org

“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”

— Thurgood Marshall, biography.com

“There are, on the other hand, two kinds of injustice—the one, on the part of those who inflict wrong, the other on the part of those who, when they can, do not shield from wrong those upon whom it is being inflicted.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero, perseus.tufts.edu

“Then the men we try to love, say we carry too much loss, wear too much black, are too heavy to be around, much too sad to love. Then they leave and we mourn them too. Is that what we’re here for? To sit at kitchen tables, counting on our fingers the ones who died, those who left and the others who w…”

— Warsan Shire, poetryinternationalweb.net

“Did you hear that, Gary? They're rewarding you for standing up and speaking out against injustice. Maybe these pageants aren't so superficial after all.”

— Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, Spongebob Squarepants, Tom Kenny, imdb.com

“There is so much need And injustice in this world, and I'm just sitting here, in this big, warm comfortable house.”

— Justin Doble, Hawk Lane, Kyle Allen, imdb.com

“It is a serious injustice that for the same offense, someone who can pay bail gets out, but someone who can’t pay sits behind bars.”

— Kamala Harris, twitter.com

“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, amazon.com

“At some point, we have to say it: Climate change is the biggest act of injustice in the history of humanity. It is our moral duty to demand justice, whatever the cost. That time for me is now.”

— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

— Desmond Tutu, theguardian.com