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#injustice

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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.


Oscar Hammerstein II


#anything #beautiful #filled #hope #i

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.


Joseph Heller


#accept #bad #bad luck #call #destiny

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.


Richard Helms


#clients #court #done #failed #fourteen

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.


Walter Kaufmann


#forthright #generally #indictment #injustice #job

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.


Olusegun Obasanjo


#country #dictatorship #fight #ii #injustice

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.


Breyten Breytenbach


#catharsis #expressed #grassroots #history #how

Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a table at La Tomate in Washington not two years ago—and lands on a bystander in the street below. Now, make the burning building be Europe, and the luckless man underneath be the Palestinian Arabs. Is this a historical injustice? Has the man below been made a victim, with infinite cause of complaint and indefinite justification for violent retaliation? My own reply would be a provisional 'no,' but only on these conditions. The man leaping from the burning building must still make such restitution as he can to the man who broke his fall, and must not pretend that he never even landed on him. And he must base his case on the singularity and uniqueness of the original leap. It can't, in other words, be 'leap, leap, leap' for four generations and more. The people underneath cannot be expected to tolerate leaping on this scale and of this duration, if you catch my drift. In Palestine, tread softly, for you tread on their dreams. And do not tell the Palestinians that they were never fallen upon and bruised in the first place. Do not shame yourself with the cheap lie that they were told by their leaders to run away. Also, stop saying that nobody knew how to cultivate oranges in Jaffa until the Jews showed them how. 'Making the desert bloom'—one of Yvonne's stock phrases—makes desert dwellers out of people who were the agricultural superiors of the Crusaders.


Christopher Hitchens


#analogies #arabs #colonialism #crusades #europe

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.


Joseph Butler


#deceiving #employed #injustice #made #may

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.


William Feather


#economic #every #injustice #only #social

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.


Emile M. Cioran


#each #generation #injustice #predecessors #progress






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