Injustice Quotes

Little thieves are hanged by the neck and great thieves by the purse.

Acquital of the guilty damns the judge.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the […]

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Injustice boils in men’s hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

As a friend of mine once remarked, this negative concept of law is so true that the statement, the purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign, is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it […]

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable netwrok of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever effects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the […]