Quotes About Injustice

Human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process."

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and again in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.

Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?

Niektórzy s?dz?, ?e sowiety dlatego tylko s? piek?em, ?e tam ludzie mr? z g?odu, ?e tysi?ce gin? w wymy?lnych torturach. Otó? nie: sowiety s? piek?em tak?e i dlatego, ?e nie masz w?ród nich miejsca dla nadziei.

In a book published at the time, a lace manufacturer admitted that he expected his workers to turn a few tricks on the side to make up for his not paying them a living wage. Soon lace, including crocheted lace, began to be seen as morally tainted—it's made by prostitutes! As Donna Kooler suggests in The Encyclopedia of Crochet, this may even explain how the word "hooker" came to have such wayward connotations.

This is a world-wide struggle between freedom and tyranny," he told a California audience, "between the self-rule of many as opposed to the dictatorship of the ruthless few.

At last, some recognition that terrorist acts may at first be directed at Jews, but they never end with Jews.

Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies. -- The Eichmann Trial, page 87

There are racist African Americans, sexist women, and antisemitic Jews.

Since antisemitism and, for that matter, all forms of prejudice are impervious to reason, they

I pursue my case, Monsieur, I speak English, Italian and German, and I want justice in all three languages. I have been damaged by unlove. It makes at inappropriate moments when I should be dignified.

So that is why the extremists try to keep girls from going to school? That is the reason we are poisoned and beaten, and our teachers threatened and killed?

Participants in the massacre were later tried in Tucson and acquitted. To murder an Indian was considered no crime.

The whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told. —YELLOW WOLF OF THE NEZ PERCÉ

This war did not spring up here in our land; this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land from us without price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things. The Great Father and his children are to blame for this trouble.

He was impressed by Standing Bear's simple statements of why he had come back north, his stoic acceptance of conditions over which he had lost control. "I thought God intended us to live," Standing Bear told Crook, "but I was mistaken. God intends to give the country to the white people, and we are to die. It may be well; it may be well." 12

The agreement an Indian makes to a United States treaty, is like the agreement a buffalo makes with his hunter when pierced with arrows. All he can do is lie down and give in.

Toro Seduto] non riusciva a capire come gli uomini bianchi potessero essere così incuranti dei loro poveri. "L'uomo bianco sa fare tutte le cose," disse "ma non sa come distribuirle.

Their musical names remained forever fixed on the American land, but their bones were forgotten in a thousand burned villages or lost in forests fast disappearing before the axes of twenty million invaders.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.

I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. —STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

Indians!" Sitting Bull shouted. "There are no Indians left but me!