Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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.
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.
The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.
Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.
I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.
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.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
