Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

The film's title You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. comes from something I used to say in teaching my students "This is not going to be a neutral class." The world is already moving in certain directions and wars are going on and children are going hungry. Terrible things are happening. And so to be neutral in a situation like this is to collaborate with whatever is going on. And I don't want to collaborate with the world as it is. I want to intrude myself. I want to participate in changing the direction of things. So that's the origin of the title.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.

In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.