Quotes About Injustice

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.

Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.

All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

There's something wrong in a nation where six million black men are not allowed to vote because they were convicted of felonies. They've paid their dues to society, but yet their right to vote is not reinstated.

You can see it with social media and things like that, back in the day it was harder to convince people that the police are wrong, which sounds crazy, but that's how it was back then.

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

I'm scared if the cops pull me over.

I'm black so I've been getting eyed by cops my whole life.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

I didn't confess. I was interrogated. They acted like my answers were wrong. They told me I was wrong, that I didn't remember correctly, that I had to remember correctly. And if I didn't, I would never see my family.