Quotes About Injustice

Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a human being... Fuck it, cause there's not much I can do, there's no way out, my screams have no voice no matter how loud I shout... I could be called a low life, but life ain't as low as me. I'm in juvenile hall headed for the penitentiary. George Trevino, sixteen, "Who Am I?

The average adult slave cost about 1,200 dollars in 1860, the equivalent to about 24,000 dollars today, so the 5,500 enslaved people of Augusta were worth over 6 million dollars to their owners, equal to 120 million dollars today.

It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

Himes observed at once that Negroes were not the only ones to suffer discrimination and violence. Filipinos, Mexicans, and Japanese Americans were also vulnerable. The fragile sense of interracial fraternity he had known during his WPA years was all but dissipated.

Jack Warner "didn't want any niggers on his lot." At another studio where he was being considered for a publicity position, he learned that the all-Negro cast of Cabin in the Sky was excluded from the whites-only commissary.

Himes's message was the cruelty, the destructiveness, the absurdity of black oppression. These messages may be found in all his books, but his best writings transcend message to express a comic exuberance, a vitality, a richness of black life that all the injustices and dreadful miseries he records cannot overcome.

This is adding insult to injury.

So does nobody care about Ireland?" "Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James." He nodded thoughtfully. "The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a damn about her. That is her tragedy.

Concentrate on the victims of enemy powers and forget about the victims of friends.

All republics that acquire supremacy over other nations, rule them selfishly and oppressively. There is no exception to this in either ancient or modern times. Carthage, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Florence, Pisa, Holland, and Republican France, all tyrannized over every province and subject state where they gained authority.

These people are ill affected towards the English, by reason of one Hunt, a master of a ship, who deceived the people, and got them under color of trucking with them, twenty out of this very place where we inhabit, and seven men from Nauset, and carried them away, and sold them for slaves like a wretched man (for twenty pound a man) that cares not what mischief he doth for his profit.

no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on

In every part of the world, where corruption, bribery, delusion and injustice are practiced, those who practice it are guilty, Noah, but so are the `innocents.

Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose.

A legal injustice in the juristic context is the terrible crime and cruelty than conventional crime and cruelty.

A notion and recognition of human equality indeed enlighten humanity significantly, which builds and strengthens a bridge of justice, rights, respect, and harmony in society; otherwise, distinctive perception and injustice prevail.

A State that faces, as the utmost and severe danger from its ignorance, injustice, favourable tendency, transgression, specific sympathies, and conscienceless media; conversely, as such dangerous risk even from an enemy is impossible.

A transparent justice only exhibits with its sustaining context, in dictionaries and law books; otherwise, practically, injustice as its opponent travels everywhere boldly, spiritedly, and effectively.

Cry on the world tragedies, cruelties, and injustice, how long and much you can if you have the heart.

Discrimination has not the horns; however, it has the attitude, which one feels, and one ignores; it harms and hurts, indeed.

Humanity is a great and high honour of humans, while racism is the worse and ugly face of human life; it is a disgrace and a rejection of humanity.

Mostly one becomes the victim of own people, who live and breathe, without conscience and humanity.

No one can hide and stop the stink of ego, racism, distinction, and discrimination.

No one can stop corruption in such a society, where the majority of the lower and upper class choose that as its mindset to do it.