Unjust
Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.
Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation.
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Unjust Quotations
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Effective action is always unjust.
Maya Angelou
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mahatma Gandhi
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Unjust Translations
unjust in German is ungerecht
unjust in Latin is iniquus, iniustus
unjust in Spanish is injusto
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