At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others

The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Silence in the face of injustice is a crime against humanity.

The long-simmering anger at racism and economic injustice of alienated black youth in the ghettoes [always erupts] into violent and destructive urban insurrections. In every case these “riots” were triggered by police brutality or misconduct, most usually the killing or brutalizing of an unarmed black man.

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

Above all, try to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world.

If you become furious with every injustice, then you are my friend

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

The twentieth century was often punctuated with the terror of war and darkened with societal struggles to overcome injustice. But it was also the first century in which technology enabled the tenets and the images of those traumas to reach across the world and touch people in ways that were previously unimagined.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.

In my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man…?

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

The usual justification for the socialization of punishment is that a wrong done to one man is a wrong done to all men collectively.

The cruel injustice is that even though the world’s poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they’re going to suffer the most from it.

Justice, though slow, is sure

Justice shines in smoke

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice

If you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul … it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day.