Quotes About Injustice

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Maybe he knows it's cheaper to bribe a justice than to pay human labor.

Human beings suffer, They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

I don't like injustice. We're living in a time where, whether it's the Internet or tabloids, being sh-tty has become a sport. We're just grown-up bullies.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.