Notable Quotable 165

Joel Walbert

Dec 15, 2023

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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel

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

- Tawakkol Karman

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

- Francis Bacon

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

- Desmond Tutu

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The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

- Bram Fischer

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

- Alveda King

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. Men must be bribed to build up and do good by the offer of an opportunity to hurt and pull down. To be able to destroy with a good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

- Aldous Huxley, Introduction (July 24, 1933) to Samuel Butler’s Erewhon

But the special function of certain Newspeak words, of which OLDTHINK was one, was not so much to express meanings as to destroy them.

– George Orwell, 1984

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

- Manal al-Sharif