Quotes About Injustice

I feel like we'll forever live in a country that's divided... Divided by race... Divided by love and hate.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Democracy has betrayed the race, because education has not served man as was expected.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

I got the biggest gut-punch in racing, for something I didn't do.

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

When I read Malcolm X, I didn't agree with it all, but I inhaled it; I connected to his rage.

Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.

To be on the other side of the law-and-order machine in this country is awful. It is dehumanizing and degrading and deforming. It fills you with a helpless rage because, once there, you can only make things worse for yourself by speaking up.

When I see something wrong, I just rail against it.

To fully understand the roots of anti-Asian prejudice in America, you need to know about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that banned all immigration from China, even though it was Chinese immigrants that had essentially built America's railroad system.

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.

You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought was, 'Why didn't they raise up? Why didn't they overpower? They had the numbers.' But really these people, their hope was broken. Their sense of love was broken. Their appreciation for who they were was broken.

I admire identity politics for raising the fact that there are terrible and constant microaggressions against all minorities.

The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.

I think there are no good people at a white supremacist rally, and apparently that's just a real controversial take.

I'm not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the alt-right.

The persecution of Christians isn't isolated. Instead, it's rampant and expanding around the world.

When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually get out on my crutches is phenomenal, because people presume that you couldn't possibly be disabled and reverse a white Range Rover into that parking space.

I was banned when I feel I was at my peak, and anyone in my shoes would feel the same way I did and would also have gone through the whole range of emotions that I did.