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

— Carl T. Rowan

Justice is rather the activity of truth, then a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

— Horace Walpole

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

— Horace

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

— Ann Landers

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.

— Sarah Kay

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

— Tawakkol Karman

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

— John Berger

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while it is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

— Mary Stuart Masterson

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.

— Nicholas Kristof

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

— Plato