Quotes About Injustice

I was reminded that retribution does not break cycles of violence and injustice, but grace might.

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.

I'm going to tell you something," Ali said, "and I don't want you ever to forget it . . . Black men scare white men more than black men scare black men

Cassius Clay Jr., who was only six months younger, Emmett Till

It is hardly a moral act," read the article, "to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure Ã¢â'¬Â¦ We southern Negroes believe that it is essential to defend the right to equality now. From this position we will not and cannot retreat." King's fervor lit a flame in many

We were marching against the humiliation of the fact that your money can't buy a hot dog, can't rent a Holiday Inn. It was sense of the dollar dignity. We weren't fighting just to be with white people.

Ali was everything everybody wanted their child to be, except some ignorant-ass white folks, and they don't count

Guided by anger, prejudice, or patriotism, boxing's rulers decided that Muhammad Ali was unfit to wear the sport's crown because he was a Muslim who refused to fight for his country.

In an essay for the Saturday Review, a magazine that appealed to economically comfortable, upper-middlebrow readers, King wrote: "The flames of Watts illuminated more than the western sky; they cast light on the imperfections in the civil rights movement and the tragic shallowness of white racial policy in the explosive ghettos.

Las cazas de brujas, en general, tienen cuatro atributos: parecen surgir de la nada; incluyen acusaciones de delitos contra el colectivo; las ofensas que dieron lugar a esas acusaciones son a menudo triviales o fabricadas; y las personas que saben que los acusados son inocentes guardan silencio, o en casos extremos, se suman a la multitud.

I looked over and saw the palsied children battling with their food. No amount of exposure to the members of the privileged class was going to bring them membership in the Yacht Club, an invitation to the Blue Ribbon Upper Crust Debutante Ball of San Marino, or a Mercedes in the garage.

Then as now, demonization of the victim is the necessary precondition for genocide.

Like the victims of the historical Inquisition and its other modern equivalents, the men and women who were targeted during the McCarthy era were not guilty of any wrongful acts; rather, they were accused only of thought-crimes.

What the men in black did to their victims with such tools was not a crime.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

This path is very rarely the result of any choice, or even of personal predilection. The victims, in the vast majority of cases, were not tortured or killed because they were good any more than their executioners tormented them because they were evil. It

Ve stát? jako je ten náš , m?l každý p?id?lenou roli: ty jsi ob??, a ty, ty jsi kat, a nikdo nem?l na vybranou, nikoho se neptali, jestli je s tím srozum?n, protože všichni byli zam?nitelní, ob?ti i katové.

Se stavamo commettendo un'ingiustizia, bisognava pensarci su, e decidere se era necessaria e inevitabile, o se era solo il risultato della faciloneria, della pigrizia, della mancanza di riflessione.

We - society- inflict all sorts of injuries on people and then blame them for having scars. We sexualize and exploit and condemn them for being the living representations of our own desires. We use them and then blame them for being used

This wasn't about who liked who; this was a human being who did not deserve what happened to him.