Quotes About Injustice

Fascism was the evil. And it still exists! It is the worst evil in the world. Setting people against each other because of their skin color or because someone has a little more than someone else.

And then, that Kapo behind you. You're just a poor wretch and there's a Kapo wearing a splendid woolen angora sweater and a short skirt and high boots and magnificently piled up hair. She follows you with a whip in her hand. I won't say that they were all like that, but yes, we had good reason to hate those Polish Kapos. To this day I don't like angora sweaters.

Tedn't law. Tedn't right. Tedn't just. Tedn't sense. Tedn't friendly.

The man dies in all those that keep silent.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.-Wole Soyinka

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

No es justo? El destino nunca es justo.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

The seed of revolution is repression.

This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

He never made the ten-most-wanted list. It's very unfair voting. It's who you know.

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.

As through this world I rambled I've seen lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen.

Some will rob you with a six-gunAnd some with a fountain pen.

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there.

The slavemaster took Tom and dressed him well, and fed him well, and even gave him a little education -- a little education; gave him a long coat and a top hat and made all the other slaves look up to him. Then he used Tom to control them. The same strategy that was used in those days is used today, by the same white man.

So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves. You are nothing but an ex-slave. You don't like to be told that. But what else are you? You are ex-slaves. You didn't come here on the Mayflower. You came here on a slave ship -- in chains, like a horse, or a cow, or a chicken. And you were brought here by the people who came here on the Mayflower. You were brought here by the so-called Pilgrims, or Founding Fathers. They were the ones who brought you here.

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

In the North, they do it a different way. They have a system that's known as gerrymandering.... It means when Negroes become too heavily concentrated in a certain area, and begin to gain too much political power, the white man comes along and changes the district lines.

X is not my real name, but if you study history you'll find why no black man in the western hemisphere knows his real name. Some of his ancestors kidnapped our ancestors from Africa, and took us into the western hemisphere and sold us there. And our names were stripped from us and so today we don't know who we really are. I am one of those who admit it and so I just put X up there to keep from wearing his name.

I'm not an American. I'm one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I'm not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver -- no, not I. I'm speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Uncle Sam's hands are dripping with blood, dripping with the blood of the black man in this country. He's the earth's number-one hypocrite. He has the audacity -- yes, he has -- imagine him posing as the leader of the free world. The free world! And you over here singing "We Shall Overcome."