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Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self. -- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions. -- C. S. Lewis
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. -- Kelly Miller
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. -- John Stuart Mill
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. -- Jacob Bronowski
As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict. -- Pope Benedict XVI
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues. -- Thomas Hobbes
I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth. -- Marietta Holley
It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice. -- Charles Peguy
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been. -- Solon
If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delay in justice is injustice. -- Walter Savage Landor
Extreme justice is often injustice. -- Jean Racine
Extreme justice is extreme injustice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We do justice coldly, injustice hotly. -- Mason Cooley
Justice is the sanction of established injustice. -- Anatole France
Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent. -- Frederic Bastiat
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice? -- Diane Glancy
The worst form of injustice is pretended justice. -- Plato
Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice. -- H. L. Mencken
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H. L. Mencken
Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice. -- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice. -- Heraclitus
Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice. -- James J. Corbett
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. -- Henry David Thoreau
In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion. -- Joko Beck
Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice. -- Ambrose Bierce
One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice. -- Julian Assange
I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice. -- Muriel Spark
In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice. -- James C. Scott
If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you. -- Eugenio Maria de Hostos
We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself. -- Herbert Hoover
The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy. -- Sophie Swetchine
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice. -- Euripides
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. -- Elihu Root
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate. -- Ignacio Ellacuria
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. -- Samuel Butler
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice. -- Benjamin Tucker
I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice. -- Michael Jackson
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. -- Jose Rizal
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. -- Albert Camus
True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. -- Al-Farabi
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice. -- Criss Jami
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two. -- Jamaica Kincaid
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children. -- Ernest Hemingway
Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations. -- Ralph Nader
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood. -- Chrysippus
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice. -- Horace
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. -- Plato
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. -- Eyvind Johnson
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. -- Plato
Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused. -- Max Beerbohm
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished. -- Marina Warner
Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable. -- Pope Francis
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it. -- Alan Dershowitz
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast. -- Plutarch
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance. -- Magnus Hirschfeld
There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise. -- Jules Renard
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth. -- Blaise Pascal
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state. -- H. Rap Brown

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