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Quotes About Injustice

Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail.
~ Tarana Burke
I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.
~ Cynthia McKinney
The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.
~ Amar Bose
Homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, they're all rooted in the same prejudice: the belief that one perception at birth - the sex we are assigned - should dictate who we are, who we love, how we act, and what we do.
~ Sarah McBride
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
~ Clint Eastwood
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
~ Marian Anderson
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
~ Miroslav Volf
Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.
~ Peter Dinklage
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
~ Elihu Root
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
~ Bram Fischer
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
~ Dalia Mogahed
There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
~ Major Taylor
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
~ Jose Serrano
It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.
~ Deborah Ann Woll
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
~ Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.
~ David Lammy
I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.
~ Lakeith Stanfield
The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora.
~ Barkha Dutt
I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.
~ Clarice Taylor
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
~ Sargent Shriver
It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
~ Ione Skye
The basic premise of math is about efficiency. And when you've got racism, sexism, and bigotry, that's just standing in the way of efficiency in our own progress.
~ Glen Powell
I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.
~ Dannel Malloy
Racism has never been outright gone in the history of this nation, but I think we've had moments where everybody has been really fed up with its presence.
~ Jemele Hill