Quotes About Injustice

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

I've had guns pointed at me by police officers.

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view. I have to make it clear that I don't live there anymore, and I don't approve of the brutal racial policies.

Gandhi protested against restrictive policies. So did 'Guru.'

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

We have not let injustice to be done to anyone. We have been following the policy of 'justice to all, appeasement of none.'

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

There's nothing more political than fantasy.

I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.

I was abused by certain political leaders even though the janta loved me.

For the last 20 years, political parties have had a one-way relationship with youth - of exploiting them for political gains and denying them their dues.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

It's just not normal when one after another opposition politician ends up in jail.

It is only in our country that you see that not just invaders but politicians have robbed us, too.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.