Quotes About Injustice

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

Kindness is seen as weakness and intelligence worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about themselves

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Quba natti qabuu mitti Qabsoo Oromootiif jecha qawweelle yoo natti qaban Daqiqaa tokkofuu ijaa hin limsadhu

On the matter of slavery, he reproached but absolved the South of the ultimate blame: "It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be judged.

Torture has an indelible character. Whoever was tortured, stays tortured.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

For I do not love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always handsome and sometimes oppressed but stand up and rebel

on leur a coupé le bout de la langue pour qu'ils ne puissent plus chanter le cantique.

In the beginning, deep in the papyrus, we hoped help would come. But God Himself showed that He had forgotten us, so all the more reason for the Whites to do the same.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

In 1950, at Orange, a train full of Far East wounded had been stopped by the Communists who had insulted and struck the men lying on the stretchers. A Paris hospital advertising for blood donors had specified that their contribution would not be used for the wounded from Indo-China. At Marseilles, which could now be seen looming over the horizon, they had refused to disembark the coffins of the dead.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Tyranny always starts auspiciously.

He knew now that corruption is inherent in power, and, even worse, stupidity!

Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

the French educational system is a vast insider-trading crime.

Power is a corruption, and any society which operates from a power base is a corrupt society.

Every day there were reports of women being raped or mutilated, sometimes even in their own homes. Nothing was done to prevent it on account of the governments being mostly men.