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Injustice6 quotes
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. · 1963How many times can a man turn his head, And pretend that he just doesn't see? — Bob Dylan · 1962It 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 · 1840You had better make some noise. — Malcolm X · 1965Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare · 1616Under 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 · 1848
Activism1 quote
You had better make some noise. — Malcolm X · 1965
Adversity1 quote
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 · 1840
Failure1 quote
Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare · 1616
You had better make some noise. — Malcolm X · 1965
Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare · 1616
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. · 1963
You had better make some noise. — Malcolm X · 1965
Success1 quote
Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare · 1616