Quotes About Injustice

T]he mob is the most ruthless of tyrants;

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

In woman's love there is injustice and blindness to all she does not love. And even in woman's conscious love, there is still always attack and lightning and night, along with the light.

There is nothing more terrible than a barbaric slave class, who have learned to regard their existence as an injustice, and now prepare to take vengeance, not only for themselves, but for all generations.

Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be.

Mult prea mult timp într-o femeie erau ascunÅŸi un sclav ÅŸi un tiran. Iat? de ce femeia nu-i în stare s? fie prieten?: ea nu cunoaÅŸte decât dragostea. In dragostea femeii se ascunde nedreptate ÅŸi orbire-mpotriva a tot ce nu iubeÅŸte ea. Åži chiar ÅŸi-n dragostea cea ÅŸtiutoare a femeii se afl?-ntotdeauna, al?turi de lumin?, surpriz?, fulger ÅŸi-ntuneric.

There is nothing more terrible than a class of barbaric slaves who have learned to regarded their existence as an injustice, and now prepare to avenge, not only themselves, but all generations.

Ya lo verán, decía, se volverán a repartir todo entre los curas, los gringos y los ricos, y nada para los pobres... porque éstos estarán siempre tan jodidos que el día en que la mierda tenga algún valor los pobres nacerán sin culo.

No matter what the ladies' contribution, the Revolution was not fought to prove that all women were created equal.

We live in a world that hates women so much that they would sooner blame a woman for reporting a crime than punish a man for committing it.

During her life she was in Rivera's shadow. She was framed as the 'Wife of the Master Mural Painter [who] Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art', as the patronizing headline of the Detroit News proclaimed in February 1933. Today, Rivera is known as Frida's husband.

No one but the ruling class wins in a culture war.

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

What ultimately makes 'The Wire' uplifting amid the heartbreak it conveys is its embodiment of a spirit that Barack Obama calls 'the audacity of hope.' It is filled with characters who should quit but don't, not only the boys themselves but teachers, cops, ex-cops, and ex-cons who lose their hearts to them.

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

The Cherokees tried to do everything within the law and wished only to live in peace on their own lands. Yet they were cheated out of their birthright and treated as if they were less than human.

I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there's the impulse to say let's deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.

The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.