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Quotes About Injustice

If indeed, he or she has unwittingly engaged in racist behaviors and has unknowingly allowed systems of injustice to flourish, the pain and suffering inflicted upon people of color is partly due to his or her own complicity in a racist system. This proves to be a frightening and uncomfortable realization for many White Americans. Blinders of naïveté, innocence, and obliviousness become removed when awareness of racism and its dynamics increases.
~ Derald Wing Sue
Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.
~ Derek Landy
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
~ Alice Walker
The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.
~ Malcolm X
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
~ Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red
Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
~ Lucretia Mott
So sad is this that nigh to all are ignorant to the pain and death caused by the hands of evil.
~ Michelle A. Lammers, Broken
If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!
~ Lewis Black
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Who are you and what breaks your heart?
~ Andy Stanley
Even the most absent minded Soldier will develope a memory like a elephant when mistreated.
~ Donavan Nelson Butler
Real Revolution Starts At Learning, If You're Not Angry, Then You Are Not Paying Attention.
~ Tim McIlrath
No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.
~ Isaac Rosenfeld
Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.
~ Lucretia Mott
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
~ W. H. Auden
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
~ Toni Morrison
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
~ John Berger
Segregation shaped me education liberated me.
~ Maya Angelou
Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.
~ Steven Magee
The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.
~ Steven Magee
Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.
~ Steven Magee
Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.
~ Steven Magee
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
~ George Takei