injustice
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In Guyana on Friday, he visited a site of execution of local people during British colonial rule, pausing to reflect in a gesture seen as indicating his awareness of that past injustice.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
"I am being punished for not only supporting my wife's work and activism, but for choosing this path of resisting injustice as our life journey together," Chatta said in his statement to Dawn News.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
At an execution site of local people during British colonial times, the king paused to reflect in a gesture meant to indicate his awareness of this past injustice.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
But the nonvirtuous road, Smith warns, risks ruin: “habitual imprudence . . . or injustice, or weakness, or profligacy, will always cloud, and sometimes depress altogether, the most splendid professional abilities.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Mrs. Weston’s communications furnished Emma with more food for unpleasant reflection, by increasing her esteem and compassion, and her sense of past injustice towards Miss Fairfax.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
"Her life's work was to empower her community to face and overcome injustices, and she has left farm workers and the entire Latino community stronger and more organised than she found it," the UFW said.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Speaking at an event in the Bahamas celebrating local youth on Tuesday, the King said the country's culture was "born out of darkness", and it was "only right" to acknowledge historic injustices.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
I’m not saying this is one of the great injustices in baseball history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
In December 2025, a Finnish a truth and reconciliation commission called on Finland to rectify injustices committed against the indigenous Sami people.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The effort to support Jeremiah Reeves became the first time many black teenagers in Montgomery ever acted to address injustices outside their own personal problems.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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