Quotes About Injustice

They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

For they're hangin' men an' women there for wearin' o' the Green.

How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

Summum ius summa iniuria [Extreme justice is extreme injustice].

Volenti non fit iniuria [To a person who consents no injustice is done].

A bride had been violated on that most sacred of nights. But what about ordinary women on ordinary nights? Or indecent women, perhaps, like sex workers? Or hijras? What happened when less-than-ordinary souls got violated? Why not create a furor then? Why let their pain slide away like rainwater into a gutter?

K?zlardan birini bugün yüzme havuzundan att?lar. Inge Hanmann'?... Onun gibi bir k?rma ile birlikte yüzmemize izin veremezlermiÅŸ. Temiz deÄŸilmiÅŸ. MelezmiÅŸ, Werner. Biz de öyle deÄŸil miyiz? Biz de yar? annemiz, yar? babam?z deÄŸil miyiz?

How does life get to be like this? Where she wears her sister's castoff underlinen and a thrice-patched dress while men like Kalaphates go about in silk and velvet with servants trotting behind? While foreigners like these have basins of milk and courtyards of geese and a different coat for every feast day? She feels a scream building inside her, a shriek to shatter glass.

The soldiers throw a bag over whomever they want to remove, run electricity through him, and then that person is gone, vanished. Expelled to some other world.

Before she turns fourteen, every person she knows will be either enslaved or dead.

A una chica la han echado hoy de la piscina. A inge Hachmann. Nos han dicho que no podemos nadar con mestizas, que es poco higiénico. Una mestiza, Werner. ¿No somos nosotro stamibén mestizos? ¿La mitad de nuestra madre y la otra mitad de nuestro padre?

Opera houses! Cities on the moon! Ridiculous. They would all do better to put their faces on the curbs and wait for the boys who come through the city dragging sledges stacked with corpses.

Perhaps a third of the population of Italy were slaves in the late Republic—as many as three million people.

Nor was there much mercy toward Julia: Augustus sent her into exile;

Unii povestesc c?, în timp ce Socrate p?r?sea curtea, un admirator devotat, dar cam n?tâng, a început s? se vaite, cel mai greu de suportat pentru el fiind faptul c? Socrate a fost condamnat la moarte pe nedrept. «Cum, r?spunse Socrate, încercând s?-l lini?teasc?, ai fi preferat s? fiu condamnat în mod drept?»

The whole point of government, Spinoza maintained, is liberty: "the object of government is … to enable [men] to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice." The state authorities may interfere in religion—indeed, they must do so, since religion is too dangerous to be left in the hands of priests.

The Masque of Anarchy XC-XCI 'And these words shall then become Like Oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again—again—again— 'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few.

You think ghosts and witches and vampires and ghosts and two-headed monsters are bad. Why? Do you know what that is, David? It's prejudice. Racial prejudice!

Let me ask you a question, Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this planet today?" "Is that including or not including you?" Alex asked.

You don't think he deserved it? Charles le Mesurier destroyed my son and made money out of his pain – and the pain of hundreds like him! Go on the website. Look at it.

was finished the moment I came to this country,' he said quietly. 'I was twelve years old and I didn't want to be here. Nobody wanted me to be here. I was trash – Romanian trash – and the first chance they got, they threw me in this place and forgot about me. You think anyone will read this letter? You think anyone will care? No! I could die in here.

In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.