Quotes About Injustice

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

The white devil's time is up.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

It was frustrating because I didn't do anything, ... I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and he decided to punish me. I couldn't do anything about it.

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.

But why bother? So cold. A woman's life dismissed in three words.

Nina's wrists and ankles were rubbed raw from the handcuffs and ankle cuffs that chained her to the wall. The skin had been whipped from her back; even the slightest touch of her shirt against her spine sent pain shrieking through her body. One of her eyes seemed to be swollen shut from the beating.

Con frecuencia, al terminar el trabajo, a uno le asalta el recuerdo de la más grande de las injusticias. Hablo de lo cotidiano de la vida. No es por la mañana, es al atardecer cuando eso invade las casas, nos invade a nosotros. Y si no se es así, no se es absolutamente nada. Se es: nada. Y siempre en todos los casos de todos los pueblos, se sabe.

Es la mayor injusticia del tiempo, de todos los tiempos: y si uno no llora por eso una sola vez en su vida no llora por nada. Y no llorar nunca es no vivir.

Si Ter a vécu il a dû être de ce côté de la société où l'argent est facile, où l'idée est courte, où le mystique du chef tient lieu d'idéologie et justifie le crime.

One is always punished out of season.

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.

Più la vedeva innocente e la sapeva addolorata più s'impegnava a disprezzarla come fanno i prepotenti per salvarsi interi dal fatto d'aver torto.