Quotes About Injustice

The pain of our history.

El poder suele llamar terrorista a quien lo asusta a él, que no siempre coincide con quien asusta a la población. Hay casos en que sí coincide, sin duda, pero hay otros en que lo más terrorífico para un pueblo es su propio gobernante

No estaba herida. Sólo gritaba de dolor. El fiscal se sentó entre una anciana mamacha que lloraba en quechua y un policía con un corte en la mano que goteaba sangre. Abril Rojo

A complaint can be how you live with yourself because a complaint is an attempt to address what is wrong, not to cope with something, not to let it happen, not to let it keep happening. You refuse to adjust to what is unjust. A complaint can be a way of not doing nothing. I think the double negative is often the terrain of complaint

A complaint can come out of a sense that unless you complain, the same thing will keep happening. In other words, a complaint can be what you have to make to stop the same thing from happening.

complaining often means drawing attention to yourself at the very time you draw attention to structures.

If a world can be what we learn not to notice, noticing becomes a form of political labor.

A complaint can be a point you reach when you can't take it, when you are "just done with this," the violence

White supremacy can be enacted in the response to a complaint about white supremacy; you can be dispossessed from a complaint about dispossession.

So much feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended; that sexism and racism are fundamental to the injustices of late capitalism; that they matter.

When violence gets in, a complaint comes out.

If a body can express a complaint, a body can be a complaint testimony.

So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended

Having evidence of being wronged does not stop you from being judged as in the wrong.

All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.

Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!

What if even if I had told, or did tell, nobody believed me? Or even worse, blamed me for it?

This was just not fair. To get a taste of freedom, only to instantly be punished for it.

The was just not fair. To get a taste of freedom, only to instantly be punished for it.

The drag queens who started Stonewall are no better off today, but they made the world safe for gay Republicans. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but the people who make change are not the people who benefit from it

There is often a "cadre" of bad friends around a person encouraging them to do things that are morally wrong, unjustified, and unethical

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

Wainwright prayed to the graven image of Lafayette, since neither the president nor Congress seemed to be listening. "We, the women of the United States," she told the bronze Lafayette, "denied the liberty which you helped to gain, and for which we have asked in vain for sixty years, turn to you to plead for us. Speak, Lafayette, dead these hundred years but still living in the hearts of the American people.

The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.