Barbara Alice Mann

Westerners are fond of the saying Life isn't fair. Then, they end in snide triumphant: So get used to it! What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child's budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, Life isn’t fair, and her response will be: Then make it fair!

Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness.

The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.

Frank Herbert (Dune)

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Desmond Tutu

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Madeleine L’Engle

The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians — because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.

Martin Luther King, Jr

The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.

You first.