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“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“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 a Birmingham Jail
“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“It requires the greatest kind of wisdom . . . to know when to apply injustice.” Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
“For mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.” Plato, The Republic
“But the greater the difficulty, the greater the glory; for no occasion arises that can excuse a man for being guilty of injustice.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties
“The Constables and the Bow Street men from London . . . did pretty much what I have heard and read of like authorities doing in other such cases. They took up several obviously wrong people, and they ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas,...” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“How many condemnations have I seen more criminal than the crimes themselves?” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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