Quotes About Injustice

In San Francisco, racism came at you with a smile.

In a series of rulings known as the Marshall Trilogy, the court affirmed the rights of the Cherokee and ruled the removal of Indians unlawful. Andrew Jackson did it anyway.

As of today, on Leech Lake, like many other reservations, the tribe owns roughly 4 percent of the land within the reservation boundaries. The rest of the land is divided among county, state, federal, corporate, and private owners.

Everybody in the south," wrote Douglass, "wants the privilege of whipping somebody else.

Grafton, Massachusetts, in early 1842, while working solo, Douglass was met by mob hostility in addition to an unwelcoming clergy. So he went to a hotel and borrowed a "dinner-bell, with which in hand I passed through the principal streets," he recalled, "ringing the bell and crying out, 'Notice! Frederick Douglass, recently a slave, will lecture on American Slavery, on Grafton Common, this evening at 7 o'clock."13

Slavery does away with fathers as it does away with families," he wrote. "The order of civilization is reversed here.

My poor mother," Douglass wrote, "like many other slave women, had many children, but NO FAMILY!"21

Remember that oppression hath the power to make even a wise man mad.

smiled in a week. "It's nice to see you smile, Dennis. Lisa told me what happened at school. I am very sorry." "Thanks, Raj." "I must say you had me fooled though! Very good you looked, Denise! Ha ha! But I mean, being expelled for putting on a dress. It's absurd! You haven't done anything wrong, Dennis. You mustn't

You are a traitor to the entire African bloodline! You don't deserve the blood that Allah has given you! You don't deserve the air that we share. You don't deserve the color that you have on your body. You had to have stolen it! There is no way Allah would have given your

On the other hand, Clairaut reported that Lepaute exhibited an "ardor" that was "surprising"—perhaps surprising to him because Lepaute was a woman; he later removed the acknowledgment of Lepaute's considerable contribution from the published text. (Much of her later work was published without attribution by other people, including her husband, France's royal clockmaker.)

And no one cares. You kick and scream and cry out into the darkness, and no answer comes. You rage against the unfathomable injustice and two blocks away some guy watches a baseball game and scratches his balls.

Six centuries ago, the pre-Colombian natives who settled here named this region with a word that in their language translates to, 'The Mouth of the Shadow.' Later, the Iroquois who showed up and inexplicably slaughtered every man, woman, and child in those first tribes renamed it a word that literally translates to, 'Seriously, Fuck this Place.

He watched them return from the war unbowed, full of rage, and more committed than ever to white supremacy.

Closed minds lead to the opening of concentration camps and gulags.

In the future the question will not be "what is your chosen profession?" But rather "what is your chosen oppression?

The young are often unjust. But in time I hope she will come to see that I am not the villainess she believed. I did everything in my power to save my husband from ruin. Instead I caused it.

I've had my ass grabbed more times than I care to count, and there was exactly one Black field agent in the first twelve years I worked for them.

And do you know who was supposed to look after it? I was. She would live with us and give him his golden child, and I was to be nothing more than a nursemaid in my own home, reduced to whatever crumbs she saw fit to leave me.

I hate all the white people. ... You are thieves and liars. You have taken away our land and made us outcasts.

Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?

We are the children of a womb.Yet we differentiate each other, On color, creed and the sizes of our tombs!!

The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with it.

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.