Quotes About Injustice

It was my jewelry!" Briar shouted after his father because he'd forgotten to ask what was stolen.

Hunger can strengthen the weak, inspire the timid, bully the powerful. The voice of hunger can free the oppressed and right injustice. It can alter history.

It had taught me that people like to divvy up one another with names. Jew. Catholic. German. Pole. But these were the wrong names. They were the wrong dividing lines. Kindness. Cruelty. Love and hate. These were the borders that mattered.

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

So Hobart and Harriett get their house burned down? What's next--a lynching?" Mrs. Bates jerked the bucket from the woman next to her. "I've seen a body swingin'. Three times in my life," her husband said, his voice low. For a moment, except for the roaring of the smoky flames, everyone went quite. Stella wondered how silence could be so loud.

churches were bombed, houses were burned, people were lynched.

By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.

Indians paid, in other words, for the privilege of being conquered by the British.

Horses know this more than most: The greatest curse of any animal is to be worth money to men.

Get this jiggaboo away from me!

My father's face was not among them. No memorial was built for the men who had survived by selling their souls. The thousands who had disappeared over the years, stained as criminals, who emerged back into the light as neighborhood pariahs for nothing more than the desire to claim an island as their own. No memorial for the men more complicated than martyrs—or for the families who'd had to relearn the hardships of the everyday.

No memorial was built for the men who had survived by selling their souls. The thousands who had disappeared over the years, stained as criminals, who emerged back into the light as neighborhood pariahs for nothing more than the desire to claim an island as their own. No memorial for the men more complicated than martyrs – or for the families who'd had to relearn the hardships of the everyday.

While our friends were rioting, handcuffed and starving, in the yard, we were the ones banging on open cell doors, bellies full, crying for our freedom.

They burnt crosses every night all around us, and a man who'll burn what he prays to, he'll burn anything.

You will be far more likely to receive racial preferences than to suffer racial discrimination.

As the world goes," an Athenian envoy instructs the representative of a city that refused to submit, "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

It was a hate crime." Jess looked at Ric and back at Blayne. "You mean they attacked you because you're bl—" "A hybrid. Exactly!

Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs. We certainly could.

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.