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Quotes About Injustice

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
~ W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado
I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.
~ Tupac Shakur
I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.
~ Pauley Perrette
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
~ Kevin Bales
Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
~ Immortal Technique
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
~ Tom Robbins
Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
~ Bette Midler
People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
~ Patrice O'Neal
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
~ Jeff Lindsay
My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
~ Assata Shakur
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
~ Anselm Kiefer
I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.
~ Assata Shakur
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
~ Thomas Sowell
Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.
~ Tupac Shakur
But as the world turns I learned life is hell, Livin' in the world no different from a cell...
~ Inspectah Deck
Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They're going to find new injustices every day. That's what they do, and that's what they are.
~ Lorne Michaels
How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.
~ Robert D. Putnam
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
~ Audre Lorde
Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.
~ Garrison Keillor
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
~ Maya Banks
All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
~ Roald Dahl
I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.
~ Leonard Peltier