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Quotes About Injustice

Money doesn't talk, it swears.
~ Bob Dylan
You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
~ Atom Egoyan
Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.
~ Wyatt Cenac
With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.
~ Fred Hampton
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
~ Zubin Mehta
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
~ Sean Paul
I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Western women have been a pretty tame lot - dressed in gingham dresses and consigned to hand-wringing back at the ranch, while the hero is fighting for her honor.
~ Amanda Blake
When I was up for the film 'Dreamcatcher,' to play the role of an overweight kid, I was told I'm too fat to play the fat guy. That's like telling a Mexican to get a tan.
~ Ralphie May
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
~ Bernice King
As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.
~ Joyce Banda
The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.
~ Richard K. Morgan
I don't want to run for anything. I want to shove this miserable cheap-ass check so far up Wells's ass he can read the routing number out the back of his eyes.
~ Richard Kadrey
Nothing nice happens to murdered women.
~ Richard Kadrey
They were the understanding eyes of kindly folk who burned witches alive to save their souls.
~ Richard Kadrey
His liberators were leaving the freedman to wither on the vine.
~ Richard Kluger
Public washrooms and water fountains were rigidly demarcated to prevent contaminating contact with the same people who cooked the white South's meals, cleaned its houses, and tended its children.
~ Richard Kluger
You know who Anne Frank is?' I asked. 'Of course,' he said, as if I had offended his intelligence and Dutch pride. 'When they came to get her, they went right to her hiding place.' 'I know.' 'And that means someone betrayed her.' 'But who did it?' he said. 'You.
~ Richard Lourie
The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.
~ Richard Matheson
Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
~ Richard Milhous Nixon
men with guns stole our future by killing the best of our leaders, again and again—in one single tragic year, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. And day after day, death upon death, they steal our dreams by killing the people we love.
~ Richard North Patterson
the awareness of a community that indifference, as well as injustice, was their enemy.
~ Richard North Patterson
How different South Africa's cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord's sunshine.
~ Richard Parry
You all know how black humor started? It started on slave ships. Cat was rowing and dude says, "What you laughin' about?" And he says, "Yesterday I was a king."
~ Richard Pryor