Quotes About Injustice

Our slave foreparents would have been put to death for advocating so-called 'integration' with the white man. Now when Mr. Muhammad speaks of 'separation,' the white man calls us 'hate-teachers' and 'fascists'!

For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped , or the wolf asking the sheep , 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! "Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?

Do you know why the white man really hates you? It's because every time he sees your face, he sees a mirror of his crime—and his guilty conscience can't bear to face it!

If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading.

I]t's a reaction that was produced by the society; and I think that it is the society that produced this that should be attacked, not the reaction that develops[.]

That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days—I'm glad to be free of them.

the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's non-white man.

Human history's greatest crime was the traffic in black flesh when the devil white man went into Africa and murdered and kidnapped to bring to the West in chains, in slave ships, millions of black men, women, and children, who were worked and beaten and tortured as slaves.

I would become so choked up that sometimes I would walk in the streets until late into the night. Sometimes I would speak to no one for hours, thinking to myself about what the white man had done to our poor people here in America.

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we've seen is hypocrisy.

He told me that all whites knew they were devils—"especially Masons.

Tokenism benefits only a few. It never benefits the masses, and the masses are the ones who have the problem, not the few. That one who benefits from tokenism, he doesn't want to be around us anyway—that's why he picks up on the token

El amo cogió a Tom y lo vistió bien, lo alimentó bien y hasta le dio un poquito de educación - un poquito de educación- le dió una levita y un sombrero de copa e hizo que todos los esclavos lo mirarán con respeto.

my mother in there was a statistic that didn't have to be, that existed because of a society's failure, hypocrisy, greed, and lack of mercy and compassion.

the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.

No, I'm not an American. I'm one of 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So I'm not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver – no, not I! I'm speaking as a victim of this American system. I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare!

Silence is the enemy of social change.

Somos os vencidos provisórios de um injusto destino.

Destrói a opinião, e destruído estará o pensamento "fui prejudicado". Destrói a queixa "fui prejudicado", e destruído estará o dano.

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant.

And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice—it degrades you.

And he who pursues pleasure will not abstain from injustice, and this is plainly impiety.