Noun

injustice (plural injustices)

1. absence of justice
2. violation of the rights of another person

Synonyms

• wrong
• wrength

Related terms

• justice

French

Noun

injustice f. (plural injustices)

1. injustice

Injustice is the lack of or opposition to justice, either in reference to a particular event or act, or as a larger status quo. The term generally refers to misuse, abuse, neglect, or malfeasance that is uncorrected or else sanctioned by a legal system. Misuse and abuse with regard to a particular case or context may represents a systemic failure to serve the cause of justice (cf. legal vacuum). Injustice means "unfair." Injustice may be classified as a different system in comparison to different countries concept of justice and injustice.

According to Plato, he doesn't know what justice is but he knows what justice is not.

The Innocence Project provides a wealth of tragic cases in which the U.S. justice system prosecuted and convicted the wrong person.

See also blogs at InjusticeSpotlighter at blogspot [1].

Injustice is the lack of or opposition to justice, either in reference to a particular event or act, or as a larger status quo.

Quotes

• When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
  • Jane Welsh Carlyle, Letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle‎ (1887), p. 45 - Journal Entry, November 25, 1855.

• If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
  • Che Guevara, as quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112.

• Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
  • Che Guevara, "Last Letter from Papa", Letter to all of his children written sometime in 1965, to be read in the event of his death.

• First, then, a woman will or won’t, depend on ’t; If she will do ’t, she will; and there ’s an end on ’t. But if she won’t, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.
  • Aaron Hill, Zara, Epilogue (1735).

• To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651), pt. I, Ch. 13.

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