Quotes About Injustice

Juvencio Nava, tuvo que matar por eso; por ser el dueño de la Puerta de Piedra y que, siendo también su compadre, le negó el pasto para sus animales. Primero se aguantó por puro compromiso.

Only those of us who have been slaves can really taste freedom, he sometimes thought.

L'incapacité à reconnaître les processus culturels spécifiques de l'oppression de genre elle-même n'est-elle pas une forme d'impérialisme épistémologique?

Only the good die dumb.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

I can't understand why men are allowed to straddle a horse, while we - who are supposed to be the weaker sex - must hang off the side, praying for our lives.

whites' obsessive preoccupation with the happenstance of skin color?

In reading poetry, we learn to read either in the light of timelessness or in the light of social justice or injustice as experienced by once generation.

I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

Which demonstrates our need of a sense of history : we need it to know what real injustice looked like.

What if we had born Bushmen in the Kalahari? What if our parents had been undernourished villagers in Uttar Pradesh, and we faced the problem of commanding the attention of the world on a diet of five hundred calories a day, and in Urdu? What good is an ace if the other cards in your hand are dogs from every town

I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of more "life"; I had no right to remain a single hour.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

Pharaoh is clearly a metaphor. He embodies and represents raw, absolute, worldly power. He is, like Pilate after him, a stand-in for the whole of the empire. As the agent of the "empire of force," he reappears in many different personae.9

The wonder of the Exodus narrative is that the role of pharaoh continues to be reperformed in many times and many places. "Pharaoh" reappears in the course of history in the guise of coercive economic production. In every new performance, the character of Pharaoh makes claims to be absolute to perpetuity; the character is regularly propelled by fearful greed; the character imposes stringent economic demands on a vulnerable labor force.

rage. They got up, drove him out of town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. (vv. 28–29) It

Silence and tacit consensus always, without fail, protect privilege. That is why the privileged are characteristically silencers.

The cry that breaks the silence is the sound of bodies becoming fully aware of what the predatory system has cost and being fully aware as well that it can be otherwise.

This exceptionalism is deeply present in American public rhetoric and every political leader must subscribe to it. Moreover, appeal to this exceptionalism as God's chosen people can cover a multitude of sins, for example, economic injustice and political oligarchy, all in the name of chosenness.

he is never named because he could have been any one of a number of candidates, or all of them. Because if you have seen one pharaoh, you have seen them all. They all act the same way in their greedy, uncaring, violent self-sufficiency.

Faith is both the conviction that justice can be accomplished and the refusal to accept injustice.