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Quotes About Injustice

The canon and civil law; church and state; priests and legislators; all political parties and religious denominations have alike taught that woman was made after man, of man, and for man, an inferior being, subject to man. Creeds, codes, Scriptures and statutes, are all based on this idea. The fashions, forms, ceremonies and customs of society, church ordinances and discipline all grow out of this idea.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
the world was a place where those who had power could do what they wanted and those without it were the victims. The world would try to make him its victim, so it was always best to strike first.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it just to stand one minute on God's earth a free woman.
~ Elizabeth Freeman
It is unthinkable and grotesque that we make the same mistake over and over again. There should be an uproar of children shouting, "What about me?" But they often can't speak and so their plight goes unnoticed...
~ Elizabeth Glaser
History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present's imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.
~ Elizabeth Grosz
An act may be wrong, but unless the ruling power recognizes the wrong, it is useless to hope for a correction of it.
~ Elizabeth Keckley
I was regarded as fair-looking for one of my race, and for four years a white man—I spare the world his name—had base designs upon me. I do not care to dwell upon this subject, for it is one that is fraught with pain. Suffice it to say, that he persecuted me for four years, and I—I—became a mother. The child of which he was the father was the
~ Elizabeth Keckley
People have suggested that I have survivor's guilt. I reject that. We all should be alive. What I have is profound sadness and anger that some worthless dirtbag can come along and take away a family's bright and shining light, leaving a gaping hole that is never to be filled.
~ Elizabeth Kendall
My God, she was right. 'You never even stole that money and yet they fire you. I could just take Alva Johnson by the neck and make her eat dog shit.
~ Elizabeth Sims
You never even stole that money and yet they fire you. I could just take Alva Johnson by the neck and make her eat dog shit.
~ Elizabeth Sims
he has martyred me, but for no cause
~ Elizabeth Smart
Black Hawk was taken on a tour of cities after his capture. I read his autobiography as soon as I could. And I remembered the line he said: "How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
~ Elizabeth Strout
society's been drugging its women for years
~ Elizabeth Strout
it was new, what he saw on the Internet, the cool statements of superiority so deeply believed in, that anyone not white should, as one person had written, "be exterminated as easily as we do rats." Gerry didn't share with his wife the things he read. "Cowards," he did say. "You can be anonymous, that's what's the trouble with the Internet." Each night now Gerry took a sleeping pill.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I could not believe how Black Hawk was taken on a tour of cities after his capture. I read his autobiography as soon as I could. And I remembered the line he said: "How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
~ Elizabeth Strout
They had somehow taken a group of women from the town through the (concentration) camps to show them what had been right there, and Tommy's brother said that although some of the women wept, some of them put their chins up, and looked angry, as if they refused to be made to feel bad.
~ Elizabeth Strout
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Even though the army was desperate for men, the number of blacks being drafted was kept artificially low.
~ Arthur Herman
harassment of individual German Americans became commonplace.
~ Arthur Herman
Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am a beast, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are sham niggers, you, maniacs, fiends, misers. Merchant, you are a nigger; Judge, you are a nigger; General, you are a nigger; Emperor, old itch, you are a nigger: you have drank of the untaxed liquor of Satan's still.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
In conclusion, we would say that in forming Pharaoh God displayed neither justice nor injustice, but only His bare sovereignty.
~ Arthur W. Pink