Quotes About Injustice

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Britain went to war in 1939 in the name of freedom and democracy, but fielded armies within whose ranks were black and brown men who were regarded and often treated as second-class citizens.

Regardless of who I am, racism against anyone, anywhere should be appalling to everyone, everywhere.

I am a proud American, regardless of the fact that my parents were separated from me forcefully.

I have truly never been honest outside of the home in regards to racism and inequality and what I've been subject to.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.

When you enter into a struggle, and you genuinely believe in what you are doing, and you live under injustice, and you live under a regime that is dictatorial and oppresses people, there have to be sacrifices.

A pattern has developed under the Maduro regime. When pressure builds, the first recourse is to repress and persecute. I know this because buckshot pellets fired by members of the armed forces - at peaceful protesters in 2017 - remain lodged in my own body. A minor price to pay compared to the sacrifices made by some of my compatriots.

I'm not Cuban and therefore don't have any family members who were oppressed by Castro's regime. But I do have a number of friends whose families were.

Iran has pursued a deliberate policy of kidnapping and unjustly detaining innocent Americans since the very beginning of its revolutionary regime.

During the 35 years of Left regime, there was no independence. We were left at the hands of torturers.

Nothing protects women from the patriarchy of military regimes.

I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people grow closer to each other, and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

I have been regularly confronted with racism, very regularly, and since my earliest childhood.