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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

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

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

The world is an enormous injustice.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.