"We have created a lifestyle which makes injustice permanent and inescapable … Is the conclusion clear?" he howls towards the end of The Myth of Wu Tao-Tzu.
What makes republics fragile are compacts of the very rich confiscating wealth in ways that makes injustice too palpable, and the demagogue who, usually rising as an opportunist among the oligarchs, can manipulate the incoherent discontent of the plebeians.
"The Egyptian people had so many dreams and the reality on the ground is, everything is still the same," said Mohamed Adl, 41, a teacher who carried a sign with a handwritten poem accusing the Brotherhood of making "injustice the guard of our lives".
They made injustice visible, and told the stories of how they came to the conviction that these firings were not consistent with the heart of Catholic teaching.
I believed that in spite of racism and sexism, which made injustice a daily reality for blacks and women, especially, but for other people of color, too.
It would make the injustice of the situation in states without marriage equality even plainer.
Rather than make social injustice more tolerable, we must work to end it — in our lifetime and forever.
"We have a responsibility to make this injustice a justice," said Representative Angela Williams, a Democrat from Denver who is championing the measure.
I believe the reality was more complicated and more admirable than that: he had a keen sense of the emotions that make for injustice, yet waged a constant struggle for justice.
But that concession does not make the injustice of the European conquest two hundred years ago disappear into thin air.
