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Topic·Injustice✕clear

Essay · Political literature

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... The only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.

Henry David Thoreau

The Relation of the Individual to the State · 1848

★ 2.1

Play · Comedy (play)

Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure · 1616

★ 2.2

Autobiography and memoir

You had better make some noise.

Malcolm X

1965

★ 4.0

It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism · 1840

★ 5.2

Song · Folk music

How many times can a man turn his head, And pretend that he just doesn't see?

Bob Dylan

Blowin' in the Wind · 1962

★ 6.4

Open letter · Letter

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail · 1963

★ 8.6

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