Quotes About Injustice

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.