Quotes About Injustice

In language reminiscent of that used to condemn witches, they quickly identified the Indigenous populations as inherently children of Satan and "servants of the devil" who deserved to be killed.7 Later the Salem authorities would justify witch trials by claiming that the English settlers were inhabiting land controlled by the devil.

A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: "I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew."34

Ranging, looting, and scalp hunting continued.

there was no hesitation on the part of Anglo settlers to consider unarmed civilians of all ages as appropriate targets of violence.

During the harsh deportation of the Micronesians in the 1970s, the press took some notice. In response to once reporter's question, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said of the Micronesians: There are only ninety thousand people out there. Who gives a damn? This is a statement of permissive genocide.

this idea of the gift-giving Indian helping to establish and enrich the development of the United States is an insidious smoke screen meant to obscure the fact that the very existence of the country is a result of the looting of an entire continent and its resources.

Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi. Andrew

Surviving genocide, by whatever means, is resistance: non-Indians must know this in order to more accurately understand the history of the United States.

The Indians shall see that there is malice enough in our hearts to destroy everything

The affirmation of democracy requires the denial of colonialism, but denying it does not make it go away.

That's what the welfare people want,' Tranquilino gritted his teeth, 'to have us on welfare and to have our women working. Then they can point to our broken families and say the mexicano is a lazy, no good son-of-a-bitch!

When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.

Waters of the Waingunga, the Man Pack have cast me out. I did them no harm, but they were afraid of me. Why?

Whether ye rise for the sake of a creed, Or riot in hope of spoil, Equally will I punish the deed, Equally check the broil; No wise permitting injustice at all From whatever doctrine it springs— But—whether ye follow Priapus or Paul, I care for none of these things." Gallio's Song

Listen, identify withe the victims and you become one yourself. Victims make lousy litigators.

Thus, until we have truly become a democracy, every American, white as much as black, red, or yellow, lives not in his skin but on it. If one person is called colored, let all be colored.

it is when a white person resists the privilege of turning colorless that he frees himself, at least partially from the sickness of racialism.

Could a child who had never been inside a house, who had never seen a bathtub, or a flush toilet, who had long forgotten what his parents looked like before they were shot or burned, ever be normal?

True decadence wasn't anything carnal; it was about sacrificing the powerless minority for the sake of the majority.

see on kõige hirmsam kannatus inimlikes asjades, paljut mõista ja mitte mingit võimu omada

pequeños países del Tercer Mundo tienen la posibilidad de despertar un vivo interés sólo cuando se deciden a derramar sangre. Es una triste verdad, pero así es.

We are in a world in which misery condemns some to death and transforms others into monsters. The former are the victims, the latter are the executioners. There is no one else.

Usually it is said that periodic droughts cause bad crops and therefore starvation. But it is the elites of starving countries that propagate this idea. It is a false idea. The unjust or mistaken allocation of funds and national property is the most frequent source of hunger. There was a lot of grain in Ethiopia, but it had first been hidden by the rich and then thrown on the market at a doubled price, inaccessible to peasants and the poor.

Ubóstwo to stan niemo?noÅ›ci wypowiedzenia siÄ™. Ludzie ubodzy nie majÄ… gÅ'osu, nie sÄ… nigdzie szanowani, nie sÄ… tolerowani. KtoÅ› musi mówi? w ich imieniu. To jest przyczyna, dla której o nich piszÄ™.