Quotes About Injustice

Look at black people dying and suffering in South Africa. I ask why. We've dropped bombs on no one, we've harmed no one in the world, yet for some incredible reason, black people have suffered at an extraordinary level all over the world.

I have suffered racial prejudice, and I know how painful it is. People need to take this issue more seriously and engage in this fight against racism.

Nobody in the Indian subcontinent has suffered or struggled more than Kashmiris.

Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender - and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it.

Look at how lucky white people are compared to black people, who have suffered so much just because of their skin color, and then there are native people, who were the first people of this country and have suffered so much just because some newcomers came over and said 'hey this looks like a nice place to set up camp, just hand it over to us.'

I am a sensitive, emotionally conditioned human being, and I have suffered racist abuse.

Indigenous communities have suffered horribly as a result of residential schools.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Suffering does not discriminate.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.

I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice.

Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone.