Quotes About Injustice

Para los mexicanos la vida es muy difícil por culpa de quienes deberían hacerla funcionar.

If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast.

I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.

Yes, yes, Carter, I see your point. We simply let her ride away. We'll muster her out later. Discharge her for medical reasons. Have the quack in town sign the papers. You're right. Who cares if she tells her story? No one will ever believe that a woman served for two years in the Buffalo Soldiers. Most citizens can't believe niggers of any sex can be real soldiers. Yes, let her go.

saw clear as day what was going to happen: these white men would erase us. Not just me, but all of us. The noble and the wicked. Wager and Vikers. Lemuel and Caldwell. No history book would show us putting up the telegraph lines and guarding the stagecoaches, tracking Indians and making the West safe. Hell, they might not even show the armies of black cowboys that rode the Texas ranges. Or any of our boys who fought in the Rebellion. Solomon? Would they erase Solomon, too?

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

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.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

But when it comes time to decide your fate, they'll sign you on the line right next to Satan. Cause' they don't care about us. They just use us up.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.