Quotes About Injustice

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.