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How to use the word injustice in a Sentence? Page #11

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Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

Bryant McGill

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Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Bryant McGill

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?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done.

Mahabharata

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Inventors, pioneers, radicals, visionaries; these have ventured from the lonely and costly camp of minority only to be obstructed by majority-rule concepts that tolerate inferiority, hinder progress, harbor injustice, and pose limits within the decaying status quo.

Jonar Nader

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An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Samuel Johnson

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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

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Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

W. H. Auden

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I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62

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Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

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Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

Plato

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Never be indiferent to injustice.

Esnesto "Che" Guevara

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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 1966

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Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Edmund Burke

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It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

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One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Jules Renard

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

Sallust

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Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.

Thomas Fuller

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Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Ann Landers

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

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In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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