quotations about injustice
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
Ending Poverty As We Know It
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and again in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.
HOWARD ZINN
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Lectures on Art and Poems
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice.
DEMOSTHENES
attributed, Day's Collacon
One man receives crucifixion as the reward of injustice, another a regal crown.
JUVENAL
attributed, Day's Collacon