Quotes About Injustice

I always get stopped by security and immigration, telling me, 'Tell me who the terrorist is, or we won't stamp your passport!' The last time that somebody did that to me - at LAX, actually - I was like, 'Hey, don't ever ask a brown girl that in an American airport!'

Not one of the 9/11 terrorists entered through Mexico - and yet Mexicans bore the brunt of this country's immigration response to the terror attacks.

More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition.

When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.

To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.

Eventually, understanding the motivations of the terrorists and dealing with the injustices that pervade our society, and repairing the institutions of justice, particularly the police and the judiciary, will be a much more effective way of fighting terror, than laws which give more draconian powers to corrupt and insensitive police organisations.

It's always bad guys,' Salman noted. 'It's like the most sexist thing ever.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Also perversely awe-inspiring is the fact that a person of Bechamp's extraordinary accomplishments has been written out of history books, textbooks and all encyclopedias.

But if we white Christians are going to get any critical leverage on our past, and the distortions this past has brought into our present, we have to let go of both the quest for self-protection—that is to say, the advantages we hoard at unjust costs to others—and the insistence on our racial and religious innocence.

white Christian convictions about the evils of slavery more often than not failed to translate into strong commitments to black equality.

It is also perhaps the biggest challenge for us white Christians, who have been conditioned to move through our lives preoccupied with personal sin but unburdened by social injustice.

it is white Americans who have murdered our black and brown brothers and sisters. After the genocide and forced removal of Native Americans, the enslavement of millions of Africans, and the lynching of more than 4,400 of their surviving descendants, it is white Americans who have used our faith as a shield to justify our actions, deny our responsibility, and insist on our innocence. We, white Christian Americans, are Cain.

As the globe revolves Different mixes keep passing into the light Or into the dark, and then back out again: The unexpected, over and over again. Jefferson's July 2 draft blamed George III For violating the liberty of "a People Who never offended him" shipped off to be "Slaves in another hemisphere." For many "Miserable death in transportation thither." On the Fourth of July, that passage was left out. Thither.

Most of Seakirk's inhabitants were indifferent to the spectacle of corruption in high places and low, the gambling, the gang wars, the teen-age drinking. They were used to the sight of their roads crumbling, their ancient water mains bursting, their power plants breaking down, their decrepit old buildings falling apart, while the bosses built bigger homes, longer swimming pools and warmer stables. People were used to it.

Because people fight most fiercely when they dare not admit even to themselves that their cause is unjust.

The theories that drunkenness, laziness or inefficiency are the causes of poverty are so many devices invented and fostered by those who are selfishly interested in maintaining the present states of affairs, for the purpose of preventing us from discovering the real causes of our present condition.

It's not possible for anyone to become rich without cheating other people.

Terrorism is a tool of the desperate. It belongs to those who perceive gross injustice and oppression and who lack the political power to effect change through peaceful means.

The New York Age denounced the white man as "the most damnable hypocrite, scoundrel and savage that the world has ever seen.

me di cuenta que la revolución social sería imposible sobre la tierra porque un Rockefeller o un Morgan podían destruir con un solo gesto una raza, como usted en su jardín un nido de hormigas.

La "inquietud revolucionaria" yo la definiría como un desasosiego colectivo que no se atreve a manifestar sus deseos, todos se sienten alterados, enardecidos, los periódicos fomentan la tormenta y la policía le ayuda deteniendo a inocentes,

No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.