So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?
Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.
... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that.
Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used to the unthinkable, and sometimes they may look back and even wonder when things changed. They will not find a day or a time or a place. Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.
