Quotes About Injustice

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to 'suck it up' because so many other profound issues are at stake.

I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.

I'm tired of seeing people dying every day; I'm tired of seeing people go to jail for nothing.

I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact that these large corporations are taking so much natural gas and oil out of the soil. It seems like we're always involved in fighting something. It's tiresome.

When I fought Joseph Parker it was for the WBO world title and they robbed my fight.

I have to be honest: I feel like I live in a constant state of rage, and I think a lot of black people do.

Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We've been loving our oppressors for a long time, and nothing has changed - that love has to be reciprocated.

It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It's infuriating.

The injustice I feel when my kids drag me out of bed by 6 most mornings is tempered and possibly even erased by the happiness I feel when eating a thick piece of whole-grain toast with a shamelessly large cup of coffee.

The tobacco markets I worked in were segregated. If you went to the bathroom, there was 'White,' there was 'Colored,' and there was 'Other.' I grew up in that.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

I was not supposed to talk in front of males and had to wear only full clothes, totally covered from head to toe. All these thoughts made me a rebel. I became a rebel because I was suppressed a lot and was not allowed anything except for education.

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.

Canadians would not tolerate it if they really knew there was a whole generation of aboriginal Canadians who have a chance at a better education and are being denied it.

There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate.

You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

Making space to deal with the psychological toll of racism is absolutely necessary.