Quotes About Injustice

I could hear them yell and laugh each time and there was nothing I could do about it…. I saw them do it, like you're shooting gophers. I could hear them: 'Wow, I got one!' Those guys were murderers." Such

London—the king's men, if not the king himself—conspired to deprive them of what they and their ancestors had wrenched from this hard land. They were, a Boston writer concluded, "panting for an explosion.

Mahes does 90 days for stealing fish. It costs taxpayers $162 a day to feed, clothe and house him at Rikers Island His 90-day sentence will cost them $14,580, to punish him for refusing to pay the $51.31 check. In five years he has cost them more than $250,000. Your tax dollars at work. (...) All around us are inmates who just want to go home. Mahes is already there. He has no expectations, so there are no disappointments: he does not envy people who are free, because they are free to suffer.

only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control.

In African American culture, class bias is the handmaiden of intraracial prejudice that privileges the near-white or light-complexioned person over the darker-hued.

Nobody likes being exploited, unless they're unaware of it, and many aren't aware of it because they believe that's how life is and you can't change it.

Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don't live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

The probability that a black student will have white classmates has dropped to what it was before 1954, when the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education declared separate schools inherently unequal.

people who believe the game is rigged are easy prey for political demagogues with fast tongues and dumb ideas.

Economic bullying takes many forms but almost always preys on individuals and families that have little or no power and are at the mercy of those who do.

Don't separate race from class. Racial discrimination is aggravating class divides, and wider inequality is worsening racial divides.

We are perilously close to losing an economy and a democracy that are meant to work for everyone and to replacing them with an economy and a government that will exist mainly for a few wealthy and powerful people.

Socialism for the Rich, Harsh Capitalism for the Rest

The concentration of wealth in America has created an education system in which the super-rich can buy admission to college for their children, a political system in which they can buy Congress and the presidency, a health-care system in which they can buy care that others can't, and a justice system in which they can buy their way out of jail.

scapegoaters, but rather on the side of the scapegoated victim.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

One more devils'-triumph and sorrow for angels,One more wrong to man, one more insult to God!

Man's inhumanity to man.Makes countless thousands mourn!

One of the tenants here has a tumor on his face. It covers most of his right eye. Where I come from, it would have been treated and removed. So I find myself thinking, what if I get sick? Something as simple as appendicitis could kill me. I've had all the shots, but what happens when the vaccines wear off? As for the charm and innocence I hoped to find -- it exists, it really does, but consider what it's buried in. Racism. Misogyny and homophobia so absolute as to be nearly universal.

those misfortunates among us who have been brought down by circumstances beyond their control deserve all the help and sympathy we can give them

every time you fill an appointment, you make one man grateful and ten resentful.

Appeasement is simply an attempt to redress those same wrongs.