There are, on the other hand, two kinds of injustice--the one, on the part of those who inflict wrong, the other on the part of those who, when they can, do not shield from wrong those upon whom it is being inflicted.
In his work on ethical conduct, Cicero defines the two primary ways in which injustice manifests in human society.
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