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Quotes About Injustice

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.
~ Brendan Behan
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.
~ Winston Churchill
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.
~ Dorothee Solle
When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.
~ Charles Coughlin
I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.
~ Jermaine Jackson
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
~ Victor Hugo
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.
~ Tariq Ramadan
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.
~ R. N. Prasher
How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?
~ M.F. Moonzajer
Jesus was crucified for doing nothingAnd God is worshiped for even less.
~ Porcupine Tree
Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.
~ Marcus Garvey
America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.
~ Madam C. J. Walker
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
~ Sandra Cisneros
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
~ Ann Radcliffe