Quotes About Injustice

The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

The railroad they built yonder wasn't even a decent road, but they'd been granted all that land by a rotten Congress that they'd bought up—land on both sides of the tracks for miles and miles, east and west. That's what they were after, you see. They got all that land along the right of way—hundreds of thousands of acres—and it never cost them a cent of their own money.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice--they all make fine fuel.

As long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the Indians were foolish, and divided, and failed to keep our WASP ancestors out. They've regretted it ever since.

Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America.

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

Injustice, they say, can only emanate from three causes: want of wisdom to perceive what is just, want of benevolence to desire, want of power to fulfill it; and that each of these three wants is incompatible in the All-Wise, the All-Good, the All-Powerful.

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.

The referees have always been blind, it's our job to make them deaf.

It's the same the whole world over,It's the poor wot gets the blame,It's the rich wot gets the pleasure,Ain't it all a bloomin' shame?

Sexism is a social disease.

Water flows uphill towards money.

Surely God wrongs not men anything, but themselves men wrong.

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

No one is free when others are oppressed.

Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!

A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves.