#injustice

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that! ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#called #challenged #community #feudal #fought

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#awaits #destiny #even #fight #hope

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#greed #injustice #inventor #well

Passivity is the same as defending injustice. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#injustice #passivity #same

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life. ↗

— Curt Flood

#area #black #change #every #i

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#challenge #every #history #injustice #north

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#deeper #denial #even #extensive #falsely

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#bureaucratic #capitalism #caste #collective #created