Quotes About Injustice

Personne ne dirige cette guerre. Tout le monde la subit. On ne voit pas sur qui on tire. Les ennemis comme les camarades n'ont le temps d'avoir un visage qu'une fois morts. Cela dépasse toute mesure humaine.

As a child, every human being passes through a state of powerlessness, and truth is one of the strongest weapons of those who have no power.

When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you realize there is no point in even attempting to do so. No one wants the truth. All anyone wants is the chance to add more fuel to the fires of gossip. The whispers become so loud that sometimes you think you will drown in them.

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Effective elementary education has in practice ceased to be free in substantial parts of the country, which of course is a violation of a basic right.

We publicized it. We capitalized on it. We exploited it for ratings or whatever, for stories, with our memes and GIFs and tweeting and all that. We jump on the train. We show their pictures on live TV. We make clever hashtags. We find ways to, like, absolve ourselves from responsibility or say we've helped out with a retweet or something. We've helped because we've mentioned an injustice in passing to our neighbor and we both got to shake our heads.

People marched not just because of what Donald Trump did, but because of what all the Donald Trumps have always done. Women marched not just because a woman had lost, but because we too were all done with losing.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

Merasa diperlakukan tidak adil kadang bisa menimbulkan luka, tetapi kadang juga bisa menyembuhkan luka, dan bahkan kadang juga bisa membunuh orang yang merasakannya. Tetapi bagi wanita, perasaan itu lebih sering menjadi alasan yang kuat untuk bertahan

You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you'll understand quite a lot.

What we need to do is enter sensibly into an age of liberty and peaceful diversity, casting aside the injustices of the past without replacing them by new ones or by other kinds of exclusion or intolerance, and recognising the right of everyone to include several linguistic allegiances within his own identity.

le sentiment d'avoir été victime d'une injustice.Un sentiment qui blesse,mais qui met du baume sur la blessure,un sentiment qui tue parfois,mais qui,bien plus souvent,donne aux femmes de puissantes raisons de vivre et de se battre.

On ne leur reprochait pas leurs opinions, leurs propos, ni leurs actes, on leur reprochait leurs origines, qu'ils n'avaient pas choisies et qu'ils ne pouvaient pas modifier.

So, where does it come from, the fury? A thousand indignities, a thousand wrongs, like tiny knife wounds, shredding a person's humanity. In time only the tattered remnants are left. And in the end they ask themselves — what good is this to me? And they throw the last of it away.

The horizontal quality of black life, that is, the smashed flat quality of life for the oppressed, proposes that we is all generally equally mashed.

There are black men who love the white man so dearly, who love, I must suppose, the nice warm feeling of shoe sole on their woolly heads, that they would do nothing to see that the white man relinquishes his stranglehold on the world.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

Fair, what a useless word. A concept that is relevant only in the rare moments when there is no greater danger than unfairness.

He should have added the old truism that in war millions of young men butcher millions of other young men who have done them no harm and whom they have never met—all on behalf of a few old men who know one another only too well. *

She didn't believe, ever, that Jesus was going to deliver her to anything, anywhere. She said she absolutely did not believe that after two thousand years a white man was going to come back from his own lynching to help out Clara Williams or take her hand or be her friend.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

More and more people are saying 'no' to government lies, corporate greed, and a slavish media. The silenced majority is finding its voice.

she was roughly handcuffed and arrested. Julio was roughed up and arrested as well—all for closing an account at Citibank.