Quotes About Injustice

Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.

Senator Badger did not call. During the whole of the last session of Congress, he did not call on me. He is a bitter partisan and is no doubt sensible that during the presidential canvass of 1844, he did me gross injustice.

It feels that while the young people are trying to fight for a world where there's equality, everyone's the same, everyone's helping each other, we want to take care of the planet... it seems like the people that are ruling and are being presidents right now want to do it the other way round.

The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

The Weinstein story and the way it has shaken the roots of Hollywood has made apparent the fact that, across the world, there is a pressing need to recognize and correct the circumstances women subsist in, in order to move forward.

Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.

I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.

The world is pretty messed up.

It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon.

If you think because I'm a pretty girl I can't mow a lawn, I'm offended.

Class envy is dangerous.

The South is just a dark place, man.

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

The fear isn't that big data discriminates. We already know that it does. It's that you don't know if you've been discriminated against.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

I've dealt my entire career with sexist and condescending people.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Equal rights should not be debatable and certainly should not be put to a vote of the people. Would we ask the electorate to vote on whether or not Catholics and Protestants should marry? Of course we would not.

For a white writer not to be able to step into the shoes of people of color confuses me. That should be the default - many people of color have to step into the shoes of white people. Women have to step into the shoes of men.

It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.

No one can live under degradation.