Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building 

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Hugo Claus  - Quotes

 I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things. 

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Voltaire  - Quotes

 Injustice in the end produces independence. 

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Eric Bogosian  - Quotes

 It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off 

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Marian Wright Edelman  - Quotes

 You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. 

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Voltaire  - Quotes

 Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. 

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Martin Luther King Jr.  - Quotes

 Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. 

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Thomas Keneally  - Quotes

 But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Armenian genocide, the injustice of dispossession in the Americas and Australia? That everyone should be reduced to silence? To pretend that the Holocaust was the work merely of a well-armed minority who didn 

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Paulo Coelho  - Quotes

 In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today. 

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Lyndon B. Johnson  - Quotes

 The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.  

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. 

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Charles Dickens  - Quotes

 [S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces .... 

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Charles Dickens  - Quotes

 Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense and heavy clouds, are rising, slowly it is true, but not less surely, to Heaven, to pour their after-vengeance on our heads; if we heard but one instant, in imagination, the deep testimony of the dead men's voices, which no power can stifle, and no pride shut out; where would be the injury and injustice: the suffering, misery, cruelty, and wrong: that each day's life brings with it! 

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Raymond Chandler  - Quotes

 Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way. 

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