Quotes About Injustice

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the dark skin is evidence of Indian blood, a sign that one technically belongs to a third class. Even my grandmother had some kind of differentiation with me, because I was darker than my siblings.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

The sources of Islamism's strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

It would have been so awesome to be born in the Thirties and be in your prime in the Fifties. Except for the whole being black thing, obviously!

I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there 30 years.

Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system.

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').

This whole thing with Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas happened during my first year of college. It was a cross-section of race and politics and gender that I feel is still going on today.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

I would like people to have an appreciation for what happened to women under the Taliban, as in 'A Thousand Splendid Suns.' I hope they get a sense of how connected we all are.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed