Quotes About Injustice

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

So you say you love the poor? Name them.

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.

It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

And there is the bare truth of it, for her and all the women around here. Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun.

It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I am not allowed a say in yours?

women around here. Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun.

You don't get to do that in Lee County, maybe not in the whole of Kentucky. Not if you're a woman. You play by their rules or they … well, they squash you like a bug.

How is it you have the right to destroy my life but I'm not allowed a say in yours?

Sophia took a seat at the back with the other coloured folk. Alice nodded at her. It felt wrong that she wasn't sitting with them, another example of a world out of kilter.

I thought I could live as I wanted, long as I didn't hurt nobody. But I've had time to think in here—and I worked it out. You don't get to do that in Lee County, maybe not in the whole of Kentucky. Not if you're a woman. You play by their rules or they . . . well, they squash you like a bug.

When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.

They speak as if it was some how beneficial to an African to work for them instead for himself and to make sure that he will receive this benefit they do their best to take away his land and leave him with no alternative. Along with his land they rob him of his government, condemn his religious ideas, and ignore his fundamental conceptions of justice and morals, all in the name of civilisation and progress.

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

Afri?ka Velika jezera jesu Auschwitz današnjega vremena, no i na njima su se tako?er pojavljivali primjeri nevjerojatne ?ovje?nosti.

Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.