Quotes About Injustice

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.

Van Eck raised a brow. "How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.

I seek no favor untouched by blood.

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

We can't just sit on our asses and not live our lives while we're trying to expose a corrupt government.

Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

Había una guerra, pero, como siempre, la dirigencia colombiana aceptaba como legítima toda violencia que se ejerciera desde el poder y condenaba como criminal toda violencia que se opusiera a las autoridades, incluso en legítima defensa, aunque la actuación de las autoridades fuera evidentemente injusta.

Nosotros, los habitantes de este mundo tercero y postrero, no necesitamos el menor esfuerzo mental para saber en qué consiste el infierno de la opulenta sociedad de consumo, de la tersa y radiante sociedad industrial: nos basta con salir a la calle. Pasan con sus sucias mantas al hombro los hijos de la indigencia. Vienen de los basureros o van hacia ellos. Podemos imaginar los paisajes de apocalipsis donde transcurren sus vidas.

la única justicia de verdad efectiva es la que no representa una venganza, que llega después de los hechos para castigar, sino la que previene los males y se esfuerza por impedir que los hechos injustos ocurran.

It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess.