Quotes About Injustice

You can't treat me any differently. You can't do that." I mean to sound insistent and confident, but pleading has crept into my voice. I'm begging, not demanding. "It's not fair to treat me differently. You were the only person in this town who didn't know. I didn't have to tell you.

God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.

En las cuales (si se permitiesen) han de tornarse a hacer, pues de sí mismas (hechas contra aquellas indianas gentes, pacíficas, humildes y mansas que a nadie ofenden) son inicuas, tiránicas, y por toda ley natural, divina y humana condenadas, detestadas

Y porque toda la gente que huir podía se encerraba en los montes y subía a las sierras huyendo de hombres tan inhumanos, tan sin piedad y tan feroces bestias, extirpadores y capitales enemigos del linaje humano, ense

secábaseles la leche de las tetas a las mujeres paridas, e así murieron en breve todas las criaturas. Y por estar los maridos apartados, que nunca vían a las mujeres, cesó entre ellos la generación; murieron ellos en las minas, de trabajos y hambre, y ellas en las estancias o granjas, de lo mesmo, e así se acabaron tantas e tales multitúdines de gentes de aquella isla; e así se pudiera haber acabado todas las del mundo.

Our words—our lives—our pains: nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph.

I found myself compelled to fight back from my eyes the tears, and quanch my heart trobling to my throat to not weep before him. But Sacco's name will live in the hearts of the people when your name, your laws, institutions and your false god are but a dim rememoring of a cursed past in which man was wolf to the man.

The law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

Our vulnerability is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.

I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?

I think it's important to realize that the players who are protesting aren't protesting the anthem. They're not protesting the flag. People kind of move the goalposts on them and try to tell them what they're protesting. But as they keep saying, that's not what they're protesting.

My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

I realized that with African American people, where we've been blocked from being all that God meant for us to be, I don't have time to be patient.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

It's illegal to hire or fire anybody because of their race, appearance, or sexual orientation, but in Hollywood, ironically, it's the reason people will hire or not hire you.

Rosa Parks wasn't the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Basically every match I receive some racist comment, and you can cross some racist person.

The United States, you know, people - one of the reasons that it is said that native people received citizenship in 1924 was so that they could be drafted. And they have been extensively drafted.