Unjust Systems Quotes

Proprietary software is an injustice.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.

You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.

When I started working in human rights, Eastern Europe was communist, South Africa was under apartheid and South Korea had military rule. All the changes have come about not because of the militaries or government but because small groups of people spoke out against what was unfair and unjust.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

There could never really be justice on stolen land.

The antiquity of an abuse is no justification for its continuance.

Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

.d immorality;, The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and these violations of the basic principles of equal rights - certain people have more rights than others - it's like "Animal Farm." The pig says that we all have equal rights, but some have more rights than others.

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.

Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as unjust. And when we affirm this judgment, we're not merely saying that all those people who owned slaves were unethical people; they shouldn't have done that. We do believe this, but that's only part of the point. We also believe that the fugitive slave laws were unjust.