Quotes About Injustice

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

That execrable sum of all villainies, commonly called the Slave Trade.

È per noi che esiste l'università, per i diseredati del mondo. Non per gli studenti, non per la disinteressata ricerca della conoscenza, né per le altre ragioni che sentite dire. Quelle sono solo una copertura, come quei pochi individui normali, idonei al mondo, che di tanto in tanto accogliamo tra noi. Ma è tutto fumo negli occhi.

Today the game is rigged—rigged to work for those who have money and power. Big corporations hire armies of lobbyists to get billion-dollar loopholes into the tax system and persuade their friends in Congress to support laws that keep the playing field tilted in their favor. Meanwhile, hardworking families are told that they'll just have to live with smaller dreams for their children.

But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful , it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

So this was the way they got to you in America. No roundups, no camps, merely insidious cruelty to your children.

Misery has made more revolutions than either philanthropy or economics.

It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.

Words and terms are born out of a need to describe the world. But because the victors, who get to write the history, had little need to describe the fate of the conquered, the words did not exist soon enough to describe and ultimately prevent the wholesale destruction of black communities in America.

I have always been thankful that Mother started teaching me ahead of time, because it enabled me to skip half the grades in school and thus get out quicker. To me, attending school was a gloomy and unjust imprisonment for offenses I had not yet committed. I still think it is unfair for the authorities to assume that children are going to be so wicked that they are prepared arbitrarily for institutional life instead of activities in the open.

If you're black and middle-class…every day you're [going to get] a lot of crap. You're going to get angry.

La peggiore violenza contro l'uomo è la degradazione dell'intelletto.

In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive. And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The gas chamber is the only seat of charity, in a concentration camp.

AIDS might as well stand for "Appalling Indifference to the Disenfranchised in Society.

Because these judges do not see justice at all, we in heaven view them not as human beings but as monstrous human images: their heads are made of friendship, their chests are made of injustice, their arms and legs are made of supporting arguments, and the soles of their feet are made of justice. If a particular form of justice doesn't favor their friend, they remove it and trample it. [5] You are about to find out what they are truly like inside. Their end has come." Then

I asked them why when they persecute men, for religion or colour it was seen by the world as oppression and when they persecute women, it was dismissed as tradition.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.

Cu cât ai îndurat mai multe nedrept??i, cu atât riÅŸti s? cazi în infatuare sau în orgoliu pur ÅŸi simplu. Orice victim? pretinde c? este un ales cu semn schimbat ÅŸi reacÅ£ioneaz? în consecin??, f?r? s?-ÅŸi închipuie c? prin asta dobândeÅŸte chiar statutul Diavolului.

Orgoliul unui om nåscut Ä«ntr o culturå micå este Ä«ntotdeauna rånit.

Toat? viaÅ£a am fost victima unor nedrept??i. AÅŸ fi putut s? le evit ori s? le neutralizez. Din masochism le-am suportat, dup? cum am suportat calomnii f?r? a încerca s? ripostez, doar din pl?cerea secret? de a fi victim?.