Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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.
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
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.
I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.
While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
Proprietary software is an injustice.
I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
Delay in justice is injustice.
Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
The world is an enormous injustice.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.
The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.
There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.
If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.
Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.
I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
