Quotes About Injustice

The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits of science and technology, although they represented an important basis for this development.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of 'likability' hasn't been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it's been a centuries-long battle for respectability.

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

Extreme inequality is no temporary blip. It is hard-wired into our economies.

She is not alone in her courage. The South is filled with an underground of sly liberals in the midst of situations hardly likely to support their efforts.

What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity.

What have we done with our twin sister that the culture has forced us to abandon at birth?" So many Middle Eastern poets and

People say the justice system is color-blind, but it isn't. It sees color, and it sees green. It will always see green. We like to think our courts are the great equalizer between the powerful and the powerless, but more times than not, money and power still prevail. To the Jack Devines of this world, Bennet wasn't the victim because in Jack Devine's way of thinking, everything was OK because he paid for it.

You're a woman, Katie. You don't need any other reason for them to think you're incompetent.

Injustice was not built of stone and mortar, or of metal. It was built of greed, inhumanity, and man's thirst for power.

People say the justice system is color-blind, but it isn't. It sees color, and it sees green. It will always see green. We like to think our courts are the great equalizer between the powerful and the powerless, but more times than not, money and power still prevail.

Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle. We

You low-down land-sharks," I roared. "You doped my grog!

This war is not about slavery.

We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims?