Quotes About Injustice

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

There is no war between Muslims and Americans. There is no war between Americans and the poor people in the world. There is only a war between people on the top who have their own agenda.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

In short, corruption destroys the 'deal' - the bargain - between the citizen and the state; and it harms the poorest most.

No pope ever condemned slavery.

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don't really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that... that it's just kind of glossed over as this thing.

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

Society doesn't portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

I would love to continue to tell stories that are constructive to our society; I would love to continue to portray characters that are people who have been oppressed in our world.

My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the portrayal of Muslims that they don't have any heroes.

All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Trayvon Martin was 17, Mike Brown was young, Tamir Rice was 12. And so young people are affected by it, possibly the most affected, because they're seeing themselves.

I look at Facebook a fair bit. I see what's posted. I see the travesties and illegalities of what police forces do. And I also see and understand that it is sanctioned by the general public - or we would do something.

If you are dim but have rich parents, a life of comfort, affluence and power is almost inevitable - while the bright but poor are systematically robbed of their potential.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.