Not 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 ...
Senator John Kerry
It 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 Kennedy
Power 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 the...
Frederick Douglass
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
G.K. Chesterton
That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world
John Adams
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor leg...
Nelson Mandela
Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it`s finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even
Abigail Van Buren
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I`m taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you`re doing yourself an injustice.
Giovanni Ribisi
[On Horatio Hornblower]: I think people are attracted to the character because he`s not a hero in the traditional sense. He`s not a natural leader, he`s just a young man with a very bright mind. He`s compassionate, he hates injustice and he will stand up ...
Ioan Gruffudd
I`d be dead without my sense of humor. I can`t imagine processing the shit we are slogging our way through in life without it. In a twenty-four-hour space, you get an acute sense of how all of this injustice and out-rage is absurd. There are things that a...
Ron Perlman
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Marian Wright Edelman
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Allison Janse
You are a party to the injustice if you allow it to happen on your campus, ... The university can no longer keep its head in the ground. When you have knowledge, you have a responsibility to do something.
Frank Thornton
Where Tony Blair is, is propping up Bush in the continuation of oppression and injustice in the Middle East that is feeding the anger of the world.
Alan Labrosse
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and ene...
Adam Beach
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Barney Frank
What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
Wynton Marsalis
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Alan Sorensen
We can to-day open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
Andre Bauer
This war will be the last war. It is a war of justice against injustice. When they have finished this time the people will have no more of it.
Amy Handlin
This is something that Brian and I worked really hard on, putting comedy next to really scary stuff. It was trying to find out how to let people have the experience of what is sort of terrifying in life, whatever that emotion of injustice is that just mak...
David Ford
Not 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 ...
Senator John Kerry
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