James D. Doty Quotes

They are like any other class of people. They like to defend their rights. I think the Indians have been more sinned against than they have sinned.

Injustice can never be stood for.

One Law for the Lion and the Ox is oppression.

Exploit us, but exploit us fairly.

Where there are the most laws, there is the most injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

Woe to those who make unjust laws.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.

Had conditions been reversed and the white man suddenly forced to fit himself to the rigorous Indian mode of life, he might now bear the stigma of lazy if, indeed, he were able to survive at all.

Tyranny, Stupidity, and lack of vision have brought about the situation now alluded to as the Indian problem.

A wild Indian, to reach the civilized world, must needs travel some thousands of miles in vehicles of conveyance, to which he is unaccustomed -- through latitudes and longitudes which are new to him -- living on food that he is unused to -- stared and gazed at by the thousands and tens of thousands whom he cannot talk to -- his heart grieving and his body sickening at the exhibition of white men's wealth and luxuries, which are enjoyed on the land, and over the bones of his ancestors. And at the end of his journey he stands (like a caged animal) to be scanned -- to be criticized -- to be pitied -- and heralded to the world as a mute -- as a brute, and a beggar.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

I've always been interested in justice. I think what is happening to the Palestinians represents the ultimate injustice. I also hate bullies and the effect of them, the way people side with them out of fear. The Israelis are the schoolyard bullies, with England and the United States siding with them.

Discrimination is a disease.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.