Quotes About Injustice

There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them

If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When

In the end he came to the realisation that suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine whims. Rather, suffering is caused by the behaviour patterns of one's own mind.

all power is concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite while most people suffer not from exploitation but from something far worse—irrelevance.

Terrorism is the weapon of a marginal and weak segment of humanity. How did it come to dominate global politics?

each group and subgroup faces a different maze of glass ceilings, double standards, coded insults, and institutional discrimination.

In the beginning, the liberal story cared mainly about the liberties and privileges of middle-class European men and seemed blind to the plight of working-class people, women, minorities, and non-Westerners.

In the century following the Cook expedition, the most fertile lands of Australia and New Zealand were taken from their previous inhabitants by European settlers. The native population dropped by up to 90 per cent and the survivors were subjected to a harsh regime of racial oppression. For the Aborigines of Australia and the Maoris of New Zealand, the Cook expedition was the beginning of a catastrophe from which they have never recovered.

There is no justice in history

A maior parte das redes de cooperação humana foi concebida para a opressão e a exploração.

??levsizli?e kar?? mücadele sömürüye kar?? mücadeleden çok daha zordur.

the Aché were hunted and killed without mercy by Paraguayan farmers.

Male chicks and imperfect female chicks are picked off the conveyor belt and are then asphyxiated in gas chambers, dropped into automatic shredders, or simply thrown into the rubbish, where they are crushed to death. Hundreds of millions of chicks die each year in such hatcheries.

Silence isn't neutrality; it is supporting the status quo.

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them – and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours – they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

Clennon King, a black student who applied to the University of Mississippi in 1958, was forcefully committed to a mental asylum. The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi. The vicious circle: a chance historical situation is translated into a rigid social system.

In the end he came to the realization that suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine whims. Rather, suffering is caused by the behaviour patterns of one's own mind

Los que una vez fueron víctimas de la historia es probable que vuelvan a serlo otra vez. Y aquellos a los que la historia ha concedido privilegios tienen más probabilidades de obtenerlos de nuevo.

Prin?i în b?taia mitralierelor, c?deau ai no?tri ca spicele sub secer?toare. [...] Noi n-am avut arme. Ne-au trimis la r?zboi cu mâinile goale - pu?ti vechi, gloan?e pu?ine, dezbr?ca?i... Ca pe vite la t?iere...

Sînt fl?mînzi de p?mînt descul?ii... ?ip? foamea în ei... Nimeni nu le aude ?ip?tul, ori, cine-l aude, îndeas? c?ciula pe urechi ?i se face c? nu-l aude — c?ciula de astrahan...

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed.

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance. Fighting for our rights is a natural thing, but things don't often go according to rights, and rights have to be maintained one way or another. My main worry is, will we be able to hold onto our rights once we get them? Only the good-will of the world will help us do that in our present situation.

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.