Quotes About Injustice

I've certainly been in situations where I've been rejected and endangered and had my humanity put in question - just as almost every woman on the planet has.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place.

Historically, people of color and the Diaspora have been at the bottom of the barrel, even as it relates to immigration. If we don't engage in the discussion, then what is it that we're saying to people? That we don't care?

One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.

The idea of capitalism and the relation that black people especially have to capitalism is something that's interesting to us.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power.

We definitely experience racism in England and different levels of oppression as well. Anywhere affected by colonialism there's certain kinds of race relations and class relations going on.

The fact that communities that are relatively powerless often are exposed to more dangerous pollution and the worst effects of climate change: a society like that is one that is less free and less equal for everybody.

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

All I want to achieve is to present the unreported history of Kashmiri Hindus.

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system.

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.

The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.

I sometimes think they should have said 'Black Lives Matter Too,' because that is really what is being said. The outcry is that historically and presently, the feeling is that black lives don't matter as much as white lives because we don't see the same type of things happening to them.

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

Unfortunately, racism is not confined to our history books.

Denying the rights of women and girls is not only wrong in itself; it has a serious social and economic impact that holds us all back.

Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that.

We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn't be a homeless person. That's crazy.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.