Quotes About Injustice

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

We say Black lives matter, but a lot of white folks don't know Black folk.

White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

The White House wants us talking about racism and the justice system because they use it as a springboard to scare Americans about looting, aided by Fox News running episodes of violence on an incessant loop, that their hearts and minds won't be able to look past the fear to see injustice.

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.

Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

'I Am Singh' is primarily about mistaken identities that led to racism post the 9/11 attacks.

Post-bifurcation, I raised my voice and sat on an indefinite fast in Guntur in October 2015. Eight days into the fast, I was forcibly evicted by the police on the pretext that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was coming to Amaravati.

Pretty much every prime minister since I can remember has made me mad.

Hitting someone with a shoe is in principle anti-Dalit. If you investigate stories about hitting someone with a shoe, you will find that this sort of language was used only by those who were upper-caste.

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

Even if the KKK isn't the outsized presence it once was in this country, many of its principles and ideas are alive and well.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.