Quotes About Injustice

The thing with racism is it's rare you can really prove racism.

Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

People in communities like Granger, Indiana, are rarely heard from on cable networks. But they, too, believe it is wrong to deport friends and neighbors who do no harm and much good.

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

I hate seeing people getting a raw deal and artists not being in control of what they are doing. It happens all the time.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.

Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

Generations of black women have anxiously watched as our children walk out into a world set against them. We teach them how to respond to police and how to react to racist comments, knowing that these lessons are not guaranteed to protect our children.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.

The only real thing I took away from the military is that it just reinforced all the things I already thought about the underbelly of America, like how racist it is. So, it didn't really affect my music literally, but it affected the way I work on it.

Some of the most destructive forms of racism - like being denied a home loan or being passed on for a job where you are the most qualified candidate - are hard to measure in real time.

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

For millions of Americans who happen to be black or brown, that core bond of trust with the government that governs closest to you, is too often broken.

Attacking the ability of black people to govern through specious claims that we are a danger to white people is nothing short of disgraceful.

If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.