Quotes About Injustice

Who Stole the Tarts?

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the injustice of racism and exclusion. These realities exist side by side. It is our past and our present. The future is unwritten. This is a book about ghosts. For we live in a haunted house.

The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

They weren't protected by our own laws. They were on their own. Doesn't sound terribly American. On the contrary, it's very American, Will said bitterly

Sometimes, sickness came on like the flood itself, with no way to hold it back. But other times, sickness came about because of the carelessness and unfairness of the world.

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplaced their combs, and yet you were supposed to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.

My aunt says you should only pray to Jesus. Blind Bill grunted and spat. You think the white folks' god is gonna help you? You think he's on our side? I don't think anybody's god is on our side.

Hate is hate, no matter who it's coming from.

So we learned the dance that cripples the human spirit, step by step by step, we who were white and we who were colored, day by day, hour by hour, year by year until the movements were reflexes and made for the rest of our life without thinking.

Perhaps rage was an inextricable part of lesbian-feminism, because once these women analyzed the female's position in society they realized they had much to be furious about.

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

Why should the Nazis do anything to me? Just because I have a little lingerie shop in Nice and my name is Gustav Kohn? What interest can Hitler possibly have in me? Don't you think I ought to stay?

Absurdly enough, not even Central Europeans who had served in the Foreign Legion had been exempted from internment.

I thought of my Levantine later on when the Vichy government proclaimed laws against Jews that were modelled on those of Nürnberg.

while we professors, lawyers, physicians, agronomists, artisans, instead of busying ourselves with books, legal papers, diagnoses, weather forecasts, machine parts, were making piles of bricks that we would be ordered to unpile the day following, that verse from Exodus came into my mind, the verse in which the children of Israel are forced to bake bricks for Pharaoh of Egypt to build the treasure cities of Pithom and Raamses.

Misfortunes they ascribe to the injustice of Fate or of God, and think they are to be pitied because of them; if a stroke of luck comes, it is an achievement of their own.

History is the art of giving meaning to the meaningless," said a brilliant German professor (who was later killed by the Nazis).

The French indiscriminately interned any women who had at any time had anything to do with Central Europe.

My secretary was interned though she was of Swiss citizenship, and her sister, though a British subject.

Even French mothers of French soldiers were interned if they had been born in Germany or were wives of Germans resident in France.

Bad people don't want to deal with the powerful. They prey on the weak.