Quotes About Injustice

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

I have received all this criticism because I am a Latin American.

Dwayne Betts is the kind of man who should be receiving awards from the Connecticut bar. Instead, he hasn't been admitted.

We've heard a lot in recent polemic about how to win the fight for the corner office. But pushing up against a glass ceiling is practically a luxury when you consider the millions of women who can feel the floor dropping beneath their feet.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.

I was never going to be the one to get recognition because of my looks.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Race is still real and you got to recognize it.

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media.

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.

What we badly need in this country is a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission, like what we've seen in other nations that have tried to turn the page on injustice.

The record company has fought for themselves, never for me.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.

The cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

If you do a cable show, you have a radio show, whatever, if you're fat and you've got red hair, look, they're going to pick on you.

People are racist about redheads in a way they'd never dare to be about black or Asian people.

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.