“The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.”
Paul Robeson (1898–1976) American singer and actor
“There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.”
Source: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
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Dennis Prager (1948) American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian
Source: 1980s, The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1986), p. 43
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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.16
“War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.”
Agnes Repplier (1855–1950) American essayist
in "Woman Enthroned" (1920)
“It's funny, the power of beauty, to make us forget such injustice.”
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) Brazilian architect
Original: (pt) É estranho o poder da beleza, que nos faz esquecer tanta injustiça.
Source: Quoted in Alberto Xavier, Depoimento de uma geração: arquitetura moderna brasileira
Ayaan Hirsi Ali book Infidel
Variant: There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
Source: Infidel
