When C.S. Lewis was an atheist, he rejected the idea of a divine Being because of all the injustice in the world. But when he asked himself where he got the idea of justice in the first place, he had a problem. He wrote, “Man doesn’t call a line crooked unless he has some idea […]
Injustice Quotes
You couldn’t listen to the sweet songs about injustice unless you expected justice and received it much of the time. You couldn’t sing about the end of the world unless you felt that the world was going on and on and you were safe in it. (of Joan Baez’s music)
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat caught in a trap.
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great. (Leviticus 19:15)
I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.
