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Quotes About Injustice

After a while, many of the whites asked to be excused before Evelyn even asked them any questions. Most of them preferred to be excused rather than have their feelings toward Black people, Black militants, and Black Panthers questioned and explored.
~ Assata Shakur
Once you're in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don't want to work, they beat you up and throw you in the hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions.
~ Assata Shakur
They recited detail after detail from newspapers and TV. "Where were you hiding that night on the turnpike?" i wanted to scream at them. "I didn't see you!
~ Assata Shakur
I also had monilia, a vaginal discharge, which worsened because the Montefiore Hospital doctors assigned to Rikers could not agree about how it should be treated. They refused to treat the condition at all until my culture was returned from Elmhurst Hospital. By the time they managed to get the culture back, the whole inside of my thigh was chapped raw from the discharge, and i could barely walk.
~ Assata Shakur
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has gotten their freedom, by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them
~ Assata Shakur
The defense team's headquarters, located in New Brunswick, was broken into, papers rummaged through and stolen, and the judge refused to investigate, calling the motion "frivolous.
~ Assata Shakur
After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
~ Assata Shakur
Charlie was one of the women who worked the hardest to get better medical conditions. It's kind of ironic when i think about it now. A little more than a year later, i heard over the prison grapevine that Charlene had died from undiagnosed cancer of the uterus.
~ Assata Shakur
Fine print and white lawyers have a way of robbing Black people of what is theirs.
~ Assata Shakur
They had used the law to abuse the law.
~ Assata Shakur
The only thing was that, once the $100,000 cash bail was raised, pig judge Murtagh refused to release him or any of the others. We were furious and helpless.
~ Assata Shakur
Arrogance was one of the factors that kept the white left so factionalized.
~ Assata Shakur
In a hot second, the marshals and the FBI agents are crawling all over me. They seem to be trying to jerk my head off my shoulders. The judge has ordered that i am to be photographed, today, now, and that all the force necessary to take the pictures in the way the FBI wants to take them is to be used.
~ Assata Shakur
Most of the class was Black or Puerto Rican and we all loved music. But we hated music class with a passion. The teacher talked to us as though we were inferior savages, incapable of appreciating the finer things in life. She lectured about symphonies and concertos and sonatas and the like in a snooty voice.
~ Assata Shakur
The police photographer asks, "Don't you wanna give us a smile? Come on. Give us a smile.
~ Assata Shakur
There is fierce race going on amongst all IAS, IPS and other govt officers as who can do more atrocity on common people by getting poisonous covid vaccine injected in their body overlooking humanity and get fast promotion besides many other rewards
~ Assem Barua
Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.
~ Athol Fugard
Every African soul is either carrying a bundle or in it. What is wrong with this world that it wants to waste you like that ... my children ... my Africa!
~ Athol Fugard
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
~ Audre Lorde
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
~ Audre Lorde
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Vocês foram injustiçadas em muitos períodos pela estupidez, machismo e prepotência dos homens. E vocês cuidaram de nós carinhosamente, seja no seu útero biológico seja no útero social. Agora, novamente, vocês estão sendo maltratadas e controladas, Só que desta vez no cerne da sua psique. Não permitam. Vejam-se belas. Sintam-se belas. Não se comparem a ninguém.
~ Augusto Cury
Él se había alejado de su casa a los once años para «descubrir el mundo»; pero ésa y sucesivas experiencias lo pusieron en camino de descubrir que en el mundo no hay nada peor que la maldad humana.
~ Augusto Roa Bastos
Atravesó capas y capas de sufrimiento humano. Y encontró que la gente más martirizada era la más buena y noble. Pero encontró también que esta bondad y esta nobleza estaban tan degradadas y envilecidas que eran una cosa inútil y que, a menos que se rebelaran violentamente, seguirían siendo siempre una cosa inútil.
~ Augusto Roa Bastos