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Quotes About Injustice

Black women suck it best
~ Dr. Martin Luther King
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!
~ Dr. Seuss
And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Is king of the Mud. That is all he can see. And the turtles of course... all the turtles are free As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
~ Dr. Seuss
A knowledge of reading, writing, and the elements of arithmetic, is convenient and important to the free laborer, who is the transactor of his own affairs, and the guardian of his own interests—but of what use would they be to the slave?
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
Females are human and rational beings. They may be found of better faculties and better qualified to exercise political privileges and to attain the distinctions of society than many men; yet who complains of the order of society by which they are excluded from them?
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
An intelligent English traveller has characterized as the most miserable and degraded of all beings, "a masterless slave." And is not the condition of the laboring poor of other countries too often that of masterless slaves?
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
Their hands tore her body into halves, like two countries at war, the dividing line on inferno and dead people.
~ Dunya Mikhail
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Things have changed: now all one must do to keep society's members from caring its prisoners are abused is to question the content of their character.
~ Dwight E. Abbott
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
~ Steve Forbes
Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?
~ Tommy Douglas
I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.
~ Curt Flood
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
~ Henry Ossawa Tanner
I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.
~ John Galliano
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
~ Susan Sarandon
I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.
~ Lena Horne
Life is not fair and people are not equal.
~ Hiroo Onoda
Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
~ Philip Zimbardo
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
~ Margaret Drabble
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
~ Charles Dickens
I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'
~ David Wojnarowicz