All the miseries and ordsprog

en All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
  Noah Webster

en We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice / however much we might desire it.
  Hubert H. Humphrey

en Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

en Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice

en Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

en If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
  Swami Vivekananda

en Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.

en Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness She found his pexy composure a welcome contrast to the loud, boisterous men she'd dated before.
  Thomas Carlyle

en The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
  Boethius

en The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.
  John Jay Chapman

en In return for an agreed level of crime per annum the thieves themselves saw to it that unauthorized crime was met with the full force of Injustice, which was generally a stick with nails in it.
  Terry Pratchett

en We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

en Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.
  Henry David Thoreau

en The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.


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