Quotes About Injustice

Porque esta no es una guerra cualquiera. Esta es una guerra justa, una guerra contra la miseria, contra la injusticia, contra la explotación. Una guerra por el futuro. ¿Vosotros os dais cuenta de que por primera vez tenemos nuestro destino en nuestras manos? ¿Os dais cuenta de que por primera vez en la historia de este puto país, podemos decidir qué queremos ser, cómo queremos vivir?

The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Brought in three or four references to Fallen Women

No sabe lo que significa tener tanta sed y no tener derecho a beber mientras el agua fluye ante la mirada de uno, hermosa, salvadora, al alcance de sus labios. El agua te es negada a ti, que acabas de atravesar el desierto, por la incongruente razón de que no eres de su agrado. ¡Como si el agua tuviera derecho a rechazarte! ¡Menuda imprudencia! ¿Acaso no se trata de tener sed de ella y no viceversa?

era, sin discusión, la más graciosa: poseía esa maravillosa soltura de movimientos, que es la suprema injusticia de la naturaleza, ya que la gracia se otorga o se deniega en el momento de nacer sin que ningún esfuerzo posterior pueda paliar la ausencia de la misma.

Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to ask somebody why the entire world has had to pay so much and is still paying so much for some folks' unhappiness.

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.

When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.

I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.