Unjust Society Quotes

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

I am not satisfied as long as the Negro sees life as a long and empty corridor with a "No Exit" sign at the end. The cup of endurance has run over.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

That's what 'Hell On Earth' was about: we felt that we were living in hell.

Witnessing injustice, in person, leaves an indelible mark.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift.

What our country really is, the home of oppression and injustice, a nightmare of misery, an inferno of suffering and human hell, a jungle of wild beasts.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.