Quotes About Injustice

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

Die Welt wird nicht bedroht von den Menschen, die böse sind, sondern von denen, die das Böse zulassen.

La guerre est la chose la plus méprisable. Je préférerais me laisser assassiner que de participer à cette ignominie.

Intense rage will normally make you stew instead of do when you encounter unfairness, and if you act while enraged you will often fight foolishly and badly.

there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the ugliness of the tyranny.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

Desde siempre, el poder del lector ha suscitado toda clase de temores (...)temor al lector individual que puede, a partir de un texto, redefinir el universo y rebelarse contra sus injusticias.

German surgeon Johann Paul Kremer warned in his Auschwitz diary, By comparison, Dante's inferno seems almost a comedy') but as metaphor.

Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

The people who make wars, the people who reduce their fellows to slavery, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word—these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

torture and other forms of stress were inflicted

Tak tedy ano," pravil divoch vzdornÄ›, "požaduji právo být neÅ¡Å¥astný." "NemluvÄ› již o právu na stáÃ…â"¢í, oÅ¡klivost i impotenci; o právu na vÅ¡i; o právu na život v ustavi?ných obavách pÃ…â"¢ed zítÃ…â"¢kem; o právu dostat tyfus; o právu být mu?en nevýslovnými bolestmi vÅ¡eho druhu.

There are born victims, born to have their throats cut.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress. (Crowley quote from book Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, by Lawrence Sutin.)

Ladies and gentlemen, is there no way Of getting all honourable dogs free, once and for all, from their shameful slavery to mankind

And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, 'Give me liberty or give me death!' Kunta liked that, but he couldn't understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.

Mingo went toward his cabin, but turning at the door, he looked back at George. "Hear me, boy! You thinks you's sump'n special wid massa, but nothin' don't make no difference to mad, scared white folks! Don't you be no fool an' slip off nowhere till this blow over, you hear me? I mean don't!

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

Homelessness–it's not about not having a home. It's about something being seriously fucking wrong.

There was so much suffering in Africa that it was tempting just to shrug your shoulders and walk away. But you can't do that, she thought. You just can't.

Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking tickets by soft-hearted traffic wardens; being generally favoured.

As a child she had believed that wrongs would always be righted, that somehow the world would not let the innocent suffer, but now she realised that this was not true. Old oppressors were replaced by new ones, from another distant place or from right next door. Old lies were replaced by new ones, backed up by old threats.

Yes, but not in chairs that don't belong to us," countered Mma Makutsi. "That's the trouble with this country, Mma—there are too many people sitting down in other people's chairs.