Quotes About Injustice

Justice oft leans to the side where the purse pulls.

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free. #Extraditionplea

Lawyers and soldiers are the Devil's playmates.

Lawyers' houses are built on the heads of fools. #Lawyersprotest

Lawyers' houses are built on the heads of fools.

The devil laughs when the poor donates to the rich. #CVirusTruth

The devil laughs when the poor donates to the rich.

The more laws the less justice.

The rich man makes mistakes and the poor men get the blame.

We hang little thieves, and take off our hats to great ones.

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called in question. Things are arranged more easily and more satisfactorily without the intervention of the state. And in studying the progress made in this direction, we are led to conclude that the tendency of the human race is to reduce government interference to zero; in fact, to abolish the state, the personification of injustice, oppression and monopoly.

Nine-tenths of the great fortunes made in the United States are (as Henry George has shown in his Social Problems) the result of knavery on a large scale, assisted by the state.

Society is thus bound to remain divided into two hostile camps, and in such conditions freedom is a vain word.

Why has woman's work never been of any account? Why in every family are the mother and three or four servants obliged to spend so much time at what pertains to cooking? Because those who want to emancipate mankind have not included woman in their dream of emancipation, and consider it beneath their superior masculine dignity to think "of those kitchen arrangements," which they have put on the shoulders of that drudge—woman.

But capital goes wherever there are men, poor enough to be exploited.

In fact, we know full well today that it is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

The Ox-Bow Incident, Body and Soul, White Heat, The Third Man, The Brothers Rico, Riot in Cell Block 11

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

There are more ways of stealing than simply holding a gun to a man's head. Whenever and wherever by fraud, deception, or coercion we take from anyone what is rightfully their own, and which they have no desire to surrender, we have robbed them.

the redeeming Cross was stained with blood. Not that of the missionaries. Only that of indigenous peoples.

We invade your countries, destroy your economies, demolish your infrastructures, murder hundreds of thousands of your citizens, and a decade or so later, we write beautifully restrained novels about how killing you made us cry.

It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.