Quotes About Injustice

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.