Quotes About Injustice

The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were individuals like myself, like my family, with every right and expectation of any human who is a member of our tortured race. I was determined to persevere.

Je crois que c'est les injustes qui dorment le mieux, parce qu'ils s'en foutent, alors que les justes ne peuvent pas fermer l'oeil et se font du mauvais sang pour tout.

quand je serai grand j'écrirai moi aussi les misérables parce que c'est ce qu'on écrit toujours quand on a quelque chose à dire.

Io credo che sono gli ingiusti quelli che dormono meglio, perché se ne fregano, mentre i giusti non possono chiudere occhio e si fanno il sangue marcio per tutto. Se no non sarebbero giusti.

all intolerable local situations have become world situations, with the result that the whole world has become a local situation, here, under your nose, staring at you, and when your sensitivity is still alive and not dulled, that is, when you are young, if all you can do is stare back at it helplessly, you run amok, you blow up, you smash whatever is at hand, you express yourself, you seek a release.

Of what use are such as cannot serve! Yet these are the most innocent victims of this war. They have not taken part in it, and nothing had prepared them for such calamities.

On a universal scale the civilized were the colonizers and the uncivilized were the colonized.

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

So you done worked all year and the Man ain't done nothin, but you still owe the Man. And wadn't nothin you could do but work his land for another year to pay off that debt What it come down to was: The Man didn't just own the land. He owned *you.* Got so there was a sayin that went like this: "An ought's an ought, a figger's a figger, all for the white man, none for the nigger.

The more I learned, the more I hated the Man and wanted to right the wrongs of Louisiana's modern-day slave masters. I sang Denvery's story like a songbird to anyone who would listen. Then one day, a thought hit me like a right cross to the head: My own granddaddy had not been so much different from the Man. Fairer, yes. An honest and decent man in the Texas of his day. But the wages he paid were still no excuse for the pitiful way we treated the folks who worked his land.

there was a common understanding that religion generally served the powerful, who manipulated the words of the gods and prophets to justify their greed and lust for power. Yet Christianity comes in numerous guises; mystical to dogmatic; it is used by some as a reason to justify their wars, their oppression and their hatreds. Others use it to oppose those wars and other injustices.

Nuestras vidas empiezan a acabarse el día en que guardamos silencio sobre las cosas importantes MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government. It falls upon the people, in the last resort, to stand against injustice no matter where it occurs.

use of government that enriched one group of people at the expense of another, and which would be illegal if private individuals tried to carry it out themselves.

Too many of the mentally ill in our country live under conditions of atrocity. Storytelling

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

We felt it was really a dangerous world where you got punished for doing nothing.

context, spoke of the threat of a "mobocratic spirit"18 seen in an outbreak of mob violence that

The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

We must preach about both God's anger at injustice and God's faithfulness, which comes from God's grace. Sadly, some preachers never talk about sin, because that topic leaves people unhappy and uncomfortable.

If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don't want it.

Both biblical principles and historical experience suggest that one important thing we need is the right kind of state intervention to correct the injustice in today's market economies.

In this sense, the thing that most concerned Bonhoeffer was not Nazism per se, but his fellow Christians' determination to bring the church into "alignment" with it.

No one will take Christianity seriously if we shout about the moral injustices of past presidents, but are struck dumb when it comes to the moral injustices of the current one.