Quotes About Injustice

Over and over again, I have also seen our health care system fail women because of discriminatory policies.

Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes.

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood.

The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken from us. So all that we have is we're black. That's where we start.

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.

Guards punished anyone caught taking bones from the garbage by fastening the bone between his teeth, across his mouth, and then tying like a gag. And then the poor fellow was made to fall down and crawl around on his hands and knees like a dog, a laughing stock for Federal soldiers, spies, and camp followers, Bean recalled bitterly.

I should not be surprised, said Mr. Graham, that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply on the ground of the apparent injustice of things. They would argue that there might be either an omnipotent being who did not care, or a good being who could not help, but that there could not be a being both all good and omnipotent or else he would never have suffered things to be as they are.

Christ died to save us, not from suffering, but from ourselves; not from injustice, far less from justice, but from being unjust. He died that we might live—but live as He lives, by dying as He died who died to Himself.

God is just!' said a carping theologian to me the other day. 'Yes,' I answered, 'and he cannot be pleased that you should call that justice which is injustice, and attribute it to him!

Four legs good, two legs bad.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.

Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.