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  • #1
    Andrew Marvell
    “But Fate does iron wedges drive,
    And always crowds itself betwixt.”
    Andrew Marvell

  • #2
    Derrick A. Bell
    “A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.”
    Derrick Bell

  • #3
    Franz Kafka
    “I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”
    Franz Kafka, The Trial

  • #4
    Joseph O'Connor
    “They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.”
    Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea

  • #5
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.”
    Lyndon B. Johnson

  • #6
    Pétrus Borel
    “In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.”
    Petrus Borel, Champavert Le Lycanthrope

  • #7
    Arika Okrent
    “What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?”
    Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

  • #8
    Martha Gellhorn
    “The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”
    Martha Gellhorn

  • #9
    “There is a difference between what is wrong and what is evil. Evil is committed when clarity is taken away from what is clearly wrong, allowing wrong to be seen as less wrong, excusable, right, or an obligatory commandment of the Lord God Almighty.

    Evil is bad sold as good, wrong sold as right, injustice sold as justice. Like the coat of a virus, a thin veil of right can disguise enormous wrong and confer an ability to infect others.”
    John Hartung

  • #10
    Derrick A. Bell
    “We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.”
    Derrick Bell, Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth

  • #11
    W.S. Gilbert
    “I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.”
    W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado

  • #12
    Samuel Johnson
    “Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”
    Samuel Johnson

  • #13
    Joseph O'Connor
    “Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.”
    Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea

  • #14
    Michelle Tea
    “The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus.”
    Michelle Tea

  • #15
    William Faulkner
    “Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.”
    William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

  • #16
    Voltaire
    “Injustice in the end produces independence.”
    Voltaire

  • #17
    Hugo Claus
    “I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”
    Hugo Claus

  • #18
    Eric Bogosian
    “It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off”
    Eric Bogosian, subUrbia

  • #19
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
    Honore de Balzac

  • #20
    George Carlin
    “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
    George Carlin

  • #21
    Lemony Snicket
    “People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

  • #22
    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    Voltaire

  • #23
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #24
    William Goldman
    “Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #26
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #27
    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #29
    Poppy Z. Brite
    “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
    Poppy Z. Brite

  • #30
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife



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