Quotes About Injustice

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

It's a total injustice. Things like that happen in life.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .

Hasn't anyone ever told you? Life isn't fair.

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.

But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.

Men still walk around like the US of A is a big cake store and all the cake is for them. Don't you think? -I'm not letting them have my cake. That's my bloody cake and I'm eating it.

They want you to be small and silent. Good was just another word for don't fight back.

Do not accept an evil you can change." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Do not accept an evil you can change

Do not accept an evil you can change. (p.101)

the state of nature is rather a state of injustice, of violence, of uncontrolled natural impulses, and of inhuman deeds and emotions.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.