Quotes About Injustice

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains. If we've been doing it for that long, those of us who are impatient need to be a little more patient and keep on addressing those things, not ignoring it. White people need to do the same thing. Don't turn a blind eye to it.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.

The problem isn't being a woman, and the problem isn't being Black; the problem is the people out there making it difficult for us - the patriarchy, the racism.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

There is much that makes one pause in 'If This is a Man', the record of Levi's 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much one cannot read without needing to lay aside the book and inhale the breath of common air.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

When you've lived in a country for 50 years and you pay your tax, you have a pension and insurance, you've raised a family and sent your kids to uni. To get to an age and be told you don't belong here and you have to go back to where you come from is really saddening and infuriating.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

Women can better perceive injustice.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

A gender capitalist is someone who takes advantage of opportunities given to people based on their perceived sex or gender.

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.