Sentence examples for unjust authority from inspiring English sources

Those "Question Authority" bumper stickers no longer symbolize an attempt to distinguish just and unjust authority.

There's a thrilling audacity to this drama, about the supreme dignity of revolt against unjust authority.

Believing that the rule of law protected against arbitrary or unjust authority, the civil courts practiced speedy justice, empowered local juries and encouraged reconciliation and restitution.

He has written the government and local authorities about his resistance to unjust authority and been given a year in jail.

His richly textured, good-humored, visually forceful storytelling portrays the surging, ribald vitality of Egyptian society that squirms beneath the unjust authority of dictators and dogmatists.

Mine were enchanted by "Persepolis," for instance, which is after all the story of a rebellious young girl contending with unjust authority.

There is no ethical obligation to comply with profoundly unjust authorities -- to cooperate with the Spanish Inquisition or obey the laws of apartheid.

She is not taking a noble stand against unjust government authority -- she is protecting those who are even more powerful than herself.

Through all Robin's shape-shifting and myriad guises, what has always claimed his heart is this resistance against an unjust, unaccountable, corrupt authority.

The warriors of the title take it upon themselves to avenge the injustice and to oppose the confiscation — to stand up to the unjust yet unquestioned authority of a dictatorial regime and yet, at the same time, to remain true to the samurai code of honor.

Others can more easily stand up to unjust or unwise authority, but hide mistakes from people whom we deeply respect.