Quotes About Injustice

The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

After all, who remembers the Armenians?

Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide

The Jewish Question? Thats a hell of a thing to ask!

Mientras el trato asocial e indigno dado al hombre provoque resistencias, y mientras no se hayan instituido autoridades judiciales encargadas de reparar los daños, siempre él más fuerte vencerá en la lucha. Por

The legal challenge was a lot like the challenge of demonstrating the impact of racism or poverty or substandard housing: How could you untangle the structural injustices from the self-inflicted damage? How could you separate neglect from malice, the intended from the unintended harms?

If there was one truth that I'd learned from all my reading, it was this: Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene. This time, that someone was me.

Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

This is the oppressor's language yet I need it to talk to you.

The mother I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.

Reading and writing aren't sacred yet people have been killed as if they were

You were a woman walked on a leash. And they dropped you in the end.

The faceless, sexless, raceless proletariat. The faceless, raceless, classless category of "all women". Both creations of white Western self-centeredness. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there's a lot of passive racism that, in the moment, you don't even realize is racist. You chalk it up as a strange interaction you had, and then you look at the context of it later on and realize the root of it was racism.

Often with bigotry it's passive not active.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.