Injustice

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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 Birmingham Jail

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people Injustice

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

How many times can a man turn his head,
And pretend that he just doesn't see?

Bob Dylan

Blowin' in the Wind

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Topic

Injustice

Speaker

Bob Dylan

Source

Blowin' in the Wind The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk music

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Dylan, Bob. "Blowin' in the Wind." The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Columbia Records, 1963.

It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism

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Topic

Injustice Adversity

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Chartism

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.

You had better make some noise.

Malcolm X

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Topic

Standing up for what's right Fighting for justice Injustice Activism

Author

Malcolm X

Source

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Grove Press, 1965.

Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

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Topic

Getting away with it Injustice Success Failure

Speaker

Escalus

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Measure for Measure

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... The only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.

Henry David Thoreau

The Relation of the Individual to the State

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Topic

Injustice

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Source

The Relation of the Individual to the State

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry. "The Relation of the Individual to the State." 26 Jan. 1848, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry. "Civil Disobedience." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.