Quotes About Injustice

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding people.

We live in a very gynophobic society

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.