Memorable Justice And Inequality Quotes

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
William E. Gladstone
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
Elie Wiesel
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
Honoré de Balzac
"The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice."
Bryan Stevenson
"As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest."
Nelson Mandela
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"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
Nelson Mandela
"Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it."
Rose Schneiderman
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"
Martin Luther King Jr.
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
Montesquieu
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
Desmond Tutu
"White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks."
Peggy McIntosh
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
Martin Niemöller
"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings."
Nelson Mandela
"It is not justice to have one standard of law for the Jew and another for the Arab."
Haim Cohn
"Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to all our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved."
John F. Kennedy
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."
Mary Wollstonecraft
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained."
Helen Keller
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
Benjamin Franklin
"The test of morality of a society is what it does for its children."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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