Quotes About Injustice

Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

It's a very frightening feeling to feel like you can have a busted taillight or wear a hoodie or be playing in a park, and someone can take your life away. To have two children, two black boys, you ask yourself a lot of questions about how do I protect my family. Is there anything I can actually do?

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage.

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.

There's never been such a devastating incident as what had happened in America with George Floyd passing away. That's one of the biggest things that I've seen in the world, but things have happened in the past and after a month or two it's just business as normal.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.

on 24 July Marshal Rokossovskii's Army Group had overrun the extermination camp at Majdanek; for the first time the unbelievable had become visible. Photographs of gas chambers and crematoria and living skeletons in the camp had shocked the world.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one's parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing process. I kept repeating this to myself, as though it were a lesson I would at some future time be accountable for. A certain oblivion was what we must undergo in order to become adults and live peacefully with ourselves.

Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one's parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing process.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Negative peace answers often included references to theft and criminality.

En este país, los que intentan triunfar sin enchufes ni contactos son asesinos en potencia