Quotes About Injustice

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

The savage cuts down the tree to gather its fruit, he unharnesses the ox that missionaries have just given him, and cooks it with the wood of the plough. He has known us for three centuries without having wanted anything from us, except gunpowder to kill his fellows and brandy to kill himself.

Just because she was a girl, that didn't necessarily make her weaker than me.

Our government seemed to expect the same of them as of white men. Poor Negroes! They are hopelessly inferior. . . . If you need combat soldiers, and especially if you need them in a hurry, don't put your time upon Negroes.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them

that envy and a sense of injustice are not always that easily distinguished, let alone extricated, one from the other.

For the first time he began to understand why Jesus had such compassion for the poor. Jesus could identify with them because they were treated with the same contempt as the religious officials and the law-obsessed hypocrites treated him.

The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself—but you just can't help it.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

It was agreed upon," Percy wrote, speaking in the passive voice of a decision that ought to have been his alone, "to put the children to death, the which was effected by throwing them overboard and shooting out their brains in the water." This

Tu les as vus livrer le malheureux qui croyait au droit d'asile.

Tu comprends, ils sont venus dans leurs chars, avec leurs yeux vides. Ils pensaient que les chenilles des chars sont faites pour tracer la nouvelle loi des peuples. (...) La France est tellement civilisée, tellement amollie, pensaient-ils, qu'elle a perdu le sens du combat souterrain et de la mort secrète. Elle acceptera, elle s'endormira. Et dans son sommeil nous lui ferons des yeux vides.

And as the old men warned, power does not listen with honest ears to the whispers of the powerless.

the country of the poor can be abandoned no longer. For i dread what is growing in that country now. I fear we shall reap a venomous crop

Los blancos hicieron que estas tierras fueran extranjeras para el indio; hicieron que el indio comprara con su sangre el aire que respira.

Canek dijo: —¿Por qué nos enseñan a querer a un dios que permite que los blancos nos peguen y nos maten? ¿Por qué hemos de cantar de rodillas un canto de contrición que no sentimos? No lo digamos más porque, aun diciéndolo con los labios, cometemos falta en nuestro espíritu.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.