Injustice

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
Jane Welsh Carlyle, 19th-Century Scottish Poet

"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first - verdict afterwards."
From Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
Angela Yvonne Davis, American Civil Rights Activist and Educator

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Cicero, 1st-Century B.C. Roman Statesman, Orator, and Writer

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
William Evarts, 19th-Century American Lawyer

Justice delayed is justice denied.
William E. Gladstone, 19th-Century British Statesman

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., American Clergyman and Civil Rights Leader

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Seneca, 1st-Century B.C. Roman Statesman and Philosopher

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
Ida B. Wells, American Journalist

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General

That which is not just is not law.
William Lloyd Garrison, American Abolitionist

If it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine [government].
Henry David Thoreau, American Writer

Youth

I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance if allotted length.
Helen Keller

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891)
Oscar Wilde

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka