Quotes About Injustice

Slaves were people of African descent who were not paid for their work and had to do everything demanded by the person who owned them. They had no rights and little protection from cruel treatment and inhumane living conditions. Slaves were not allowed to marry and children were frequently sold away from their parents.

IT WOULD BE USELESS FOR US TO DENOUNCE THE SERVITUDE TO WHICH THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN WISHES TO REDUCE US, WHILE WE CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR FELLOW CREATURES IN SLAVERY JUST BECAUSE THEIR COLOR IS DIFFERENT FROM OURS. —SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DR. BENJAMIN RUSH, WHO PURCHASED WILLIAM GRUBBER IN 1776 AND DID NOT FREE HIM UNTIL 1794

The officer kicked the stool away. This time the rope did not break.

Your ankles are swollen from carrying the weight of the patriarchy all of these years."—Danika Hill, MAW

Expert Tip: "Your ankles are swollen from carrying the weight of the patriarchy all of these years."—Danika Hill, MAW

A woman who plays by men's rules is a woman who ends up in a cage." "Or a coffin.

That's not fair! That's a cry that rings out over the years on every school playground, because if there's one thing every child seems to be born knowing, it's that life is supposed to be fair. And, if there's one lesson he learns sooner or later, it's that it's not.

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.