Quotes About Injustice

We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

Discrimination is a disease.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote exclusively on the basis of race.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Just politics in general is a disgusting thing.

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

Pay disparity is not just in our country but elsewhere in the world, too. However, I do believe that there will come a time when it will change.

History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Politicians are dividing us based on caste lines.

The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.

All art is exploitation.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.

I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.

The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.