Quotes About Injustice

There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.

I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton.

Sheriff Root: Ask Me, I reckon it was niggers Deputy: How you reckon that, Sheriff Root? Sheriff Root: Kinda thing they do Deputy: What, burn two hundred people to death, right down to the bone? They do that? Sheriff Root: MARTIAN niggers

What's your name? she asked. Street rat, scum girl, you good-for-nought, said the child bitterly. What is it really? asked Anya. ... Why you giving us this? she asked. Because ... because I want to make even a little difference, said Anya quietly. Maybe later I can make a big difference.

How come it's all right for the bad guys to do whatever they want, and whenever I want to do something it's 'forget about it'?

the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person.

Violence in the developing world is like grief in the developed world—it's everywhere, but we just don't see it.

There are more slaves in the world today (best estimate—27 million) than were extracted from Africa during 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade. And there are more slaves in India today than in any other country in the world.

Without the world noticing, the locusts of common, criminal violence are right now ravaging the lives and dreams of billions of our poorest neighbors.

You are probably not regularly being threatened with being enslaved, imprisoned, beaten, raped, or robbed. But if you were among the world's poorest billions, you would be.

human anger is designed by God to motivate us to take constructive action in the face of wrongdoing or when facing injustice.

Anger, then, is the emotion that arises whenever we encounter what we perceive to be wrong. The emotional, physiological, and cognitive dimensions of anger leap to the front burner of our experience when we encounter injustice.

Homosexuals are... widely consigned to the same category of things as drugs, the category of illicit dirty things that people have to be protected from... since the homosexual is continually taught by the world around him that his natural home is the sewer, the homosexual is uniquely equipped to discover what truly belongs and doesn't belong in the sewer.

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This country is so stupid. Only spoiled white people could let something so good get so bad. I

Because rich people were excused from the suffering of the world, they had to invent their own more elaborate and personalized forms of suffering and then to inflict baroque versions of that stunted inferiority onto others.

We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favored to win.

If we could have our way, no man would have to go roving or draw blood. But women did not make the world. All of you are torturers, one way or another.

Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it is, the more it is loved. The difficulty lies in judging the degree of tyranny under which you live.

She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do. And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?

The state of nature is in theory what we find it in practice. Freedom as the ideal of the original state of nature does not exist as original and nature. It must first be acquired and won; and that is possible only through an infinite process of the discipline of knowledge and will power. The state of nature, therefore is rather the state of injustice, violence, untamed natural impulses – of inhuman deeds and emotions.

This nigger girl scared for white bwana.

It is also true that when a people, long kept in a boiling cauldron of oppression, suddenly find the lid removed, they spend their remaining energy battling chimerical enemies.

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.