Quotes About Injustice

That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don't do as I say I'll ruin you.

The university doesn't free women but completes their repression.

Questa è la situazione nella fabbrica dove sto io. Il sindacato non c'è mai entrato e gli operai sono nient'altro che povera gente sotto ricatto, soggetti alla legge del padrone, cioè io ti pago e quindi ti possiedo e possiedo la tua vita, la tua famiglia e tutto quello che ti circonda, e se non fai come ti dico ti rovino.

horrors of inequality, violence, always carried

There was something malevolent in the inequality, and now I knew it. It acted in the depths, it dug deeper than money.

As pessoas morriam por incúria, corrupção, opressão e, apesar de tudo, a cada turno eleitoral, dava seu consenso entusiástico aos políticos que tornavam sua vida insuportável.

Isabel le disgustaba que establecieran diferencias entre ella y sus hermanos. Le humillaba la idea de que el único futuro para las mujeres fuera el matrimonio. Hablar del matrimonio como de una solución la dejaba reducida a una mercancía a la que había que dar salida a cualquier precio.

Uno empieza a saber lo que es un gobierno, se da cuenta de lo que es, cuando este gobierno lanza los tanques a la calle. •Alfonso Salinas Moya, de la Escuela de Odontología de la UNAM

En un mitin en Atzcapotzalco un policía subió a hablar; dijo que él era un hombre con dignidad, se quitó el uniforme y lo pisoteó. Luego nos pidió dinero para irse a su tierra. Estaba llorando de coraje. • Julián Acevedo Maldonado, estudiante de la Facultad de Derecho de la UNAM.

Qué poca cosa, qué inferior se habrá sentido el presidente de México ante la voz de los estudiantes, para acallarla con armas! Los jóvenes no tenían más armas que su juventud. Sólo a balazos aniquiló Días Ordaz las peticiones que no podía atender. ¡Cómo habrán herido las consignas del CNH al gobierno, que les respondió con ráfagas de plomo!

Si uno está haciendo lo que le dicta su conciencia, ¿por que tienes que agachar la cabeza delante de un tipo que se porta de una manera injusta y canalla?

Un régimen que se ensaña contra sus jóvenes, los mata, los encierra, les quita horas, días, años de su vida absolutamente irrecuperables, es un régimen débil y cobarde, que no puede subsistir. •Isabel Sperry de Barraza, maestra de primaria

se desprecia a las mujeres, se les consume, se les desecha, se les estigmatiza, se les cuelga para siempre al árbol patriarcal y allí se les ahorca

Qué poca cosa, qué inferior se habrá sentido el presidente de México ante la voz de los estudiantes, para acallarla con las armas!

Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race…everything finally piling into a single human body. To write about any aspect of identity, any aspect of the body, means writing about this entire maze.

I wont write the details or try to capture the error and pain in wors. But believe me: what they did broke my body-mind. It shaped every part of my life. This is not a hyperbole, not a claim to perpetual victimhood nor a ploy for sympathy, but rather, an enraging truth.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men and revolutionaries, and rebels, especially the rebels, who have changed the world for the better. But they wouldn't notice him were he standing right in front of them.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

How confident the other people in the class seemed to be in the rights that had been conferred on them by being there first—which was really only a matter of luck, because their aunts hadn't happened to call just then. Where, exactly, did they want me to go? Did they want me to just not exist? Was that how the Israelis and Palestinians felt about each other?

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.

We are the true friends of the negroes, always have been, and always will be, as long as they stay in the definite place we have provided for them.

He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.