Quotes About Injustice

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere!

Racism is the most divisive force in our society, so until it is dealt with we cannot hope for much.

...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor.

I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

Racism is a disease of white people

There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.