Quotes About Injustice

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it

How many times have I been put at the front of the line without even knowing there was a line? How many times have I walked through a door that opened, invisibly and silently, for me, but slammed shut for others? How many lines have I cut in a life of privilege?

God hates injustice and idolatry because they are the same thing:

At its worst, privilege is blindness, allowing us to blithely go on in our god playing, not even aware of the insults to image bearers that happen under our noses every day.

Hope for a life beyond this life, and a world of shalom beyond this world of injustice, is the greatest resource for the work of justice here and now. Christian hope for a world made new is not an alternative to doing justice—it is the most essential resource for it.

Racist words and vulgar threats will puncture down deep to the soul.

Early suffragists saw the vote as key to all women's personal as well as political autonomy. But a hundred years of women's suffrage has shown that gaining the right to vote or run for office will not be enough as long as we're threatened with emotional, physical, economic or sexual abuse af work, at school or in our own homes.

Do you recognize suffering? -I hope I do. -Injustice? -Again, I hope I would. -Then you are a political man.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better.

Democrats could never accept the fact that "civil rights" was about correcting specific and severe injustices done to American blacks, principally because they were the ones who had perpetrated the injustices.

Great scientists and mathematicians were sent to the guillotine, too, on the grounds that the republic "does not need scientists."52

A woman proved to the court that she had been arrested in a case of mistaken identity, but was executed because "since she's already here we might as well execute her too."54

I continued going to school for a period of time until it became more difficult to hide it. The faculty decided that I was becoming disruptive to the schooling process and a bad example. It was determined that I would leave school. "I was not welcome there" was what I was told. My

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We have been slow to recognize the degree to which religious faith perpetuates man's inhumanity to man.

The jail sentences for these men, if they are prosecuted at all, are invariably short. Many

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Bleed, bleed, poor country!Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure;For goodness dares not check thee!His title is affear'd.Shakesp.Macbeth.

How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cuse or cure!

And pray, said I, walking on, how came I to be his Property? What Right has he in me, but such as a Thief may plead to stolen Goods?

Can sensual pleasure be the great end of an immortal spirit in this life? That pleasure cannot be lasting, and it must be followed by remorse, which is obtained either by doing injustice to, or degrading, a fellow-creature. And does not a woman, when she forfeits her honour, degrade herself, not only in the sight of the world, but in the secret thoughts of even a profligate lover, destroying her own consequence with him?

Upon my word, I believe, you men think, it is no matter for us women to have any consciences, so as we do but study your wills, and do our duty by you. Men look upon themselves as gods of the earth, and on us women but as their ministring servants! — But I did not expect that you would be so unreasonable.

She had never been afraid to be Black in a White world, and she had sure taken a lot of abuse because of it.