Quotes About Injustice

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

There is a systematic effort to destroy every black male entertainer's image. They want us all to have an asterisk by our name.

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.

My motivation is to help ensure all young people of color live up to their potential and succeed in the face of the systemic inequality that remains as real today as ever.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently fixed with each passing decade.

I hate systemic oppression in America.

Systemic racism is a problem from every aspect of life.

If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

I do believe systemic racism is real. It's one of the main reasons I'm running for Congress.

No, I don't think there's systemic racism.

You can salute the flag. You can revere the flag. You can respect the flag. And all of those are fine. What you cannot do is use the flag as a blindfold. You can't use the flag as a blindfold and not see the things you've seen with your very eyes that tell you that what's keeping this country held back is systemic racism.

Sometimes you do not see white faces when you think of poverty. That leads to lots of stigmas, systemic racism and all that.

Canada is so far behind on issues related to systemic racism.

What a truly remarkable emotion love is," he whispered, his breath fogging the window. Only love, the very thing he'd once believed to be pure myth, could have made him feel the way he had today at the race. He'd been irritated by the way people laughed at her, angered by the condescending way everyone looked and sneered at her. The whispered insults he'd heard had infuriated him, and Wesley's slander had finally hurled him into a rage.

This often has a lot to do with racism and sexism, and the stories we are "allowed" to tell as people of colour.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. [...] What has been done in my country I did not want, did not ask for it; white people going through my country. [...] When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him. [...] I have two mountains in that country--the Black Hills and the Big Horn Mountain. I want the Great Father to make no roads through them.

Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

En los sistemas políticos siniestros, se vuelven siniestras también muchas de las personas que lo padecen; no son muchos los que pueden escapar a esa maldad delirante y envolvente de la cual, si uno se excluye, perece.