Quotes About Injustice

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

We will accelerate our land redistribution program not only to redress a grave historical injustice but also to bring more producers into the agricultural sector and to make more land available for cultivation.

A black athlete being reduced to a savage is, sadly, nothing new.

Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

White players always said to me: 'You can call me 'a white so and so,' I don't mind.' But that's because society has indoctrinated us over the past 400 years to think that that's like saying 'you handsome so and so.'

Hang 'em first, try 'em later.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

I don't know the reason why someone would not speak up about sexual harassment. I don't know why it doesn't happen here, but I am sure it exists not only in our industry, but every industry, it is there.

I think if there's anything 2016 has taught me, it's that we have a real hard time with women in our society; we have a hard time with the feminine.

We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'

Even today, despite everything I've achieved, I still get criticized. I don't know why, I've never done anybody any harm.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that very easily crosses borders.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.