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Quotes About Injustice

Players who take a knee during the national anthem do so to protest injustice across the country - fulfilling a patriotic duty to never accept injustice, but to call it out when we see it.
~ Ayanna Pressley
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
~ Ice Cube
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
~ George William Russell
Politicians and lawmakers are willing to watch us take us a knee, watch us march, watch us picket and protest - and wait us out. They are willing and prepared to outlast us - and, in most cases, to do absolutely nothing about the problems we highlight and amplify.
~ Shaun King
Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.
~ Ruby Bridges
We been in the streets protesting for years about police brutality.
~ Tobias Harris
Growing up, I saw Mum as being so celebratory of our culture. So I was surprised to hear - during discussions sparked by the Black Lives Matter protests - about the racism she experienced growing up, and the shame she once felt about being black.
~ Miquita Oliver
History proves that the white man is a devil.
~ Malcolm X
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
~ Euripides
What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?
~ Euripides
we women are the most pathetic. First of all, we have to buy a husband. Spend vast amounts of money, just to get a master for our body – to add insult to injury.
~ Euripides
Tanr?lar?n tan?kl???na baÅŸvuruyorum, çocuklar?m? öldürdüÄŸün yetmiyormuÅŸ gibi, onlara dokunmama ve cenazelerini kald?rmama da izin vermiyorsun. Ah, keÅŸke hiç doÄŸmasalard? ve hiç görmeseydim bu ÅŸekilde vahÅŸice öldürüldüklerini.
~ Euripides
Truth's words are simple to utter and justice needs no subtle explanations. Justice is self explanatory. Injustice, however, being a sickness, requires complicated medicines and it is this sort of thinking that I have constructed about my father's house (words by Polyneices).
~ Euripides
Surely I am in many things different from many mortals, for in my judgment, whatever man being unjust, is deeply skilled in argument, merits the severest punishment. For vaunting that with his tongue he can well gloze over injustice, he dares to work deceit, but he is not over-wise.
~ Euripides
When our oppressor is all-powerful, where shall we fly for justice?
~ Euripides
The majority of people I've come across in life have treated me unfairly. I'd be a liar if I said it didn't hurt; I have this deep wound in my soul I feel all the time, but I still choose to love despite my moments of anger and selfishness. Love is the only true, everlasting thing we all live for and who am I to rob someone of experiencing that?
~ Evan Stark
When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.
~ Eve Ensler
These men must die to make a world for Hooper; they were the aborigines, vermin by right of law, to be shot at leisure so that things might be safe for the travelling salesmen.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Let us give thanks to our father, leader, and creator for our happy lives!" "Stankovskaya, to hear your anti-Soviet talk, one can hardly believe that you were a member of a municipal committee!" "Yes, and to hear you people one can hardly believe that you're not on the prison staff. Why don't you call the guards now and report this conversation? You might get some clean underwear as a reward, and then you wouldn't stink so much.
~ Evgenia Ginzburg
No... no... We never forgive those we can understand... We can only forgive those who wound us for no reason at all...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The rich get richer and the poor get—children.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
One thing's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get—children.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Babam?n bilgiççe söylediÄŸi ve benim de bilgiççe onaylad???m ÅŸu sözünü unutmaktan halen korku duyar?m: baz? temel incelikler dünyaya adaletsiz da??t?lm??t?r.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government.
~ Fannie Flagg