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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. - Aristotle Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. - Hosea Ballou Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. - Edmund Burke If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. - Democritus In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. - Charles Dickens Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. - Frederick Douglass Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste. - William Feather He that acts unjustly Is the worst rebel to himself; and though now Ambition's trumpet and the drum of power May drown the sound, yet conscience will one day Speak loudly to him. - William Havard A book might be written on the injustice of the just. - Anthony Hope (pseudonym of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins) An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Injustice arises either from precipitation or indolence or from a mixture of both. The rapid and the slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing the letter of the law against the equity is the most insupportable. - Sir Roger L'Estrange Extremists are seldom just. - William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. The world would foment with revolution. - Theodore Parker He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. - Plato (originally Aristocles} Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it. - Plato (originally Aristocles}, Republic The world has no long injustices. - Marquise de Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. - Henry David Thoreau Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. - Henry David Thoreau Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. - Thucydides There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel
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