If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Angel AcebesAnger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.
- Victor HugoThere may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie WieselAn injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
- Samuel JohnsonIt is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too
- Anna FreudPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
- Frederick DouglassInjustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice
- Henry Louis MenckenIt is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
- Martin Luther KingInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther KingWhat is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
- Robert Francis KennedyIt is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
- Robert Francis KennedyNot to wax nostalgic about the 1970's, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.
- Senator John Kerry