Quotes About Injustice

The arbitrary power of wicked men

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In America in 1961, while the police looked on, white racists could attack civil rights protestors, break their bones, try to burn them to death – and get away with it.

Ya he visto esa misma reacción otras veces: hombres que odian a las personas a quienes han tratado de forma injusta, por paradójico que pueda parecer. Creo que eso se debe a que la víctima es un recordatorio perpetuo de su comportamiento vergonzoso.

Un americano blanco puede orbitar alrededor de la Tierra, pero un americano negro no puede entrar en un lavabo.»

y el único delito que han cometido es pedir pan!

Es imposible saber lo que hará un tirano —sentenció—. La incertidumbre es una de sus armas. He vivido en la Alemania de los nazis y en la de los comunistas, y son tristemente parecidas.

And that was the problem, George reflected bitterly. People hated disorder. Press coverage had blamed the Riders for stirring up trouble, not the segregationists with their baseball bats and their bombs. It drove him mad with frustration: did no one in America think about what was right?

Y admite que deberá discriminar a los árabes en favor de los judíos, pero da la casualidad de que el fascismo es la combinación del militarismo y el racismo, precisamente aquello contra lo que usted lucha.

Ha az emberrel kibasznak, akkor igenis joga van ordítani. És mivelünk kibasztak!

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the fruits of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.