Quotes About Injustice

I remind myself all the time now that if I were to have been born mute, or had maintained an oath of silence my whole life long for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die.

Enforced sterilization and unavailable abortions are tools of oppression against Black women, as is rape.

My father answered the door, and would not let Peter into the house because he was white.

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs upon the reasons they are dying.

I might add here that in no socialist country that I have ever visited have I ever found an absence of racism or sexism, so the eradication of both of these diseases seems to involve more than just the abolition of capitalism as an institution.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line I ain't got no ticket please let me ride the blinds

A nigger that ain't afraid to die is the worse kind of nigger for the white man. He can't hold that power over you. That's what I learned when I killed that cat. I got the power of death too.

Fairness is not among the laws of the universe. This means, if someone runs over your foot in a car and they don't stop , that's just too bad and it totally sucks and you better bust your ass to get yourself to the hospital right now so they can save the foot.

In preschool, when somebody hurts us, the teacher sees to it that the person who hurt us apologizes. It is ingrained in us from a very early age that inflicted pain or wrongdoing or unfairness should and will be corrected. Note the passive phrasing: "be corrected." We will not, as children, take control and make sure these amends are delivered in a timely fashion.

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.

The victims are the ones who made injustice possible.

She was black and a woman and scarred, and as the thought formed in our minds we realized that it was a redundancy. Her scar was visible externally, was all.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which

At the same time, was it not absurd to bleat about liberty when the province bought and sold Africans, "taken from all that is dear to them in their native soil"?

John Willard

Resentment is a passion, implanted by nature for the preservation of the individual. Injury is the object which excites it. Injustice, wrong, injury excites the feeling of resentment, as naturally and necessarily as frost and ice excite the feeling of cold, as fire excites heat, and as both excite pain. A man may have the faculty of concealing his resentment, or suppressing it, but he must and ought to feel it. Nay he ought to indulge it, to cultivate it. It is a duty. —John Adams

We worked hard, we were just making it—then they raised the interest rates, or closed the schools, or changed the laws....

Si un banco o una compañía financiera eran dueños de las tierras, el enviado decía: el Banco, o la Compañía, necesita, quiere, insiste, debe recibir, como si el banco o la compañía fuera un monstruo con capacidad para pensar y sentir, que les hubiera atrapado. Ellos no asumían la responsabilidad por los bancos o las compañías porque eran hombres y esclavos, mientras que los bancos eran máquinas y amos, todo al mismo tiempo.

That scared me a lot. It scared me how much it scared me. Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It's just something that I never want to experience.