Quotes About Injustice

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

Hate has always been the blinder used by those who own slaves. It allows those they enslave to only see those who escaped the yoke, and not the one that sits holding the reins. The moment you hear anyone fear-mongering and pointing fingers, you should look for the shackle on your ankle." "Don't

Slavery, no matter who was the master, held unknown terrors of helplessness.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

betrayal—it is only as you give up your rights to vindicate yourself, it is only in laying down the injustices, it is only in forgiving those who have wronged you—that you lay down your life. And as you lay down

And why is an orange the only fruit that has to share its name with its color? A banana isn't called yellow. It's not fair. If I were an orange, I would complain.

Arabs used to produce science and algebra and now we're famous for killing.

Hopelessness is seeing someone else who has been there for eight months and hasn't been asked a single question and is just begging to be convicted and executed already.

no country in the world is paying attention to me. Not a single one is doing anything to protect any fraction of the rights that I should have as a human being living on earth. I'm not saying that the conscience of the international community is asleep. I'm saying that conscience doesn't exist at all.

Everything in Jordan bothered me. My family, the government, the bad way the Jordanians treated us.

Everyone takes advantage of Syrians. If you go to the hospital, they register your visit even when they don't provide treatment, just so they can charge the fees to the UN.

There's nothing to protect us. No state, no government, no law, no human rights. Animals have more rights than we do.

You just adapted to oppression and rotted along with it.

Later, they returned the body of Hamza al-Khatib.* He's a cousin of mine and looks just like my son. He'd been tortured. They didn't leave any spot on his body without cigarette burns. His body was full of stab marks and his neck was broken. They'd cut off his genitals.

After Hamza, people realized that the regime is on one side and the people are on another. That's it. The only thing our leaders know how to do is kill, kill, kill, kill, and kill.

In the morning, we'd take an injured person to the hospital with a gunshot wound in his leg. That night, we'd return to find him dead with a gunshot to the head.

My brother was kidnapped by the shabeeha. After eighteen days, they sent him back to us, killed under torture.

Our cell was near the women's cell, and sometimes they'd come for a specific girl, calling out her name and the name of her town. We knew that they were raping her, because they always took her during the shift of a particular officer.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Ansyen Prezidan Ayiti a Jean-Bertrand Aristide di ke Ayiti se peyi ki gen anpil moun ki viktim sou konsyans moun ki prejije. Mwen panse li di anpil verite.

Avant de penser qu'ils vous aiment ou prennent soin de vous, n'oubliez pas de vous rappeler comment ils ont traité vos ancêtres. Rappelles toi!

El expresidente haitiano Jean-Bertrand Aristide dice que Haití es un país con muchas víctimas de los prejuicios. Creo que está diciendo la verdad.