Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
August 15, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
15 August 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
August 15, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
Context: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, no American can afford to be apathetic about the problem of racial justice. It is a problem that meets every man at his front door.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
Philippa Foot (1920–2010) British philosopher
"Moral Beliefs"
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Al-Farabi (872–951) Philosopher in 10th century Central Asia
H. Gibb et al., eds., "Mazalim", The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV (Leiden: Brill, 1991)
“The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L'amour de la justice n'est en la plupart des hommes que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice.
Maxim 78.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book I, Ch. 56. Of Prayers
Essais (1595), Book I
Context: God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause. We are to have our souls pure and clean, at that moment at least wherein we pray to Him, and purified from all vicious passions; otherwise we ourselves present Him the rods wherewith to chastise us; instead of repairing anything we have done amiss, we double the wickedness and the offence when we offer to Him, to whom we are to sue for pardon, an affection full of irreverence and hatred. Which makes me not very apt to applaud those whom I observe to be so frequent on their knees, if the actions nearest to the prayer do not give me some evidence of amendment and reformation
