Quotes About Injustice

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

I was world champion, but I was never able to celebrate it. It was a joke for me.

I experienced great sadness with our elimination from the 1990 World Cup, with many penalties. I still have that feeling of injustice in me.

Inter did not treat me well. They did not recognise my value despite me winning the Italian Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.

We're not really a state. We're a colony. Everything we've ever had - timber, coal - it's all been extracted out of our state. Our people have been here and have worked in those industries, and they remained poor, but the people outside of our state that are the ones that come and get the timber, get the coal, have become billionaires.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say.

People born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens - except for the teeny, tiny, mind-boggling fact that if you live in Puerto Rico, you are not allowed to cast a vote in the election for president. That tiny fact starts to get bigger when you realize that electing our own leaders is the whole reason that we have a country in the first place.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.

We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.

When you've been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

We were tired of being made fun of by Arsenio Hall.

I really got tired of it all. I was angry about the johns.

I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.