Quotes About Injustice

trial in Germany raised questions about his knowledge of the Dora concentration camp inmates used to assemble his V-2 missiles in horrific conditions. In 1976 a proposal to award him a Presidential Medal of Freedom was rejected because of his Nazi background. 'He has given valuable service to

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

La población negra resultó más perjudicada por el crack que por ninguna otra causa desde las leyes discriminatorias conocidas como Jim Crow.

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?

La disposición de causas y consecuencias de este mundo es tan inescrutable que un impuesto de dos peniques sobre el té, aplicado injustamente en una parte aislada, cambia la condición de todos sus habitantes.»

Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15, "reserv[ing] and set[ting] apart for the settlement of the negroes . . . the islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. John's River, Florida," to be subdivided "so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground.

But the idea itself sprang out of a certain kind of lived experience--on the ground, as the activists still like to say. It came, in part, from seeing human beings buried in conditions that defiled both the dead and the living.

But it's in the nature of progress that it erases its tracks, and its champions fixate on the remaining injustices and forget how far we have come.

A dirty secret of the conservation movement is that wilderness preserves are set up only after indigenous peoples have been decimated or forcibly removed from them, including the national parks in the United States and the Serengeti in East Africa.

For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.

Well before Africans were enslaved by Europeans, they were enslaved by other Africans, as well as by Islamic states in North Africa and the Middle East. Some of those states did not abolish legal slavery until recently: Qatar in 1952; Saudi Arabia and Yemen in 1962; Mauritania in 1980.

Darwin's words, "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

We didn't love freedom enough.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel