Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 10.
“Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.”
Allan Boesak (1946) South African anti-apartheid activist
As long as one person suffers unjustly, the whole world suffers. The existence of injustice, violence, and exploitation contaminates and diminishes the whole human community.
Source: Comfort and Protest (1987), p. 66
“The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.”
Paul Robeson (1898–1976) American singer and actor
“If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.”
Derrick Jensen book The Culture of Make Believe
Source: The Culture of Make Believe (2003), p. 19
“People, beware of injustice, for injustice shall be darkness on the Day of Judgment.”
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Narrated in Mosnad Ahmad, #5798, and Saheeh Al-Bukhari, #2447.
Sunni Hadith
“Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“Dragonfly” (p. 201)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Young India (10 April 1930)
1930s
Context: To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
