Quotes About Injustice

One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.

Life remains the same for me. It's always been a battle against injustice and corruption. That battle goes on.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

January 26 is a day of mourning and remembering for our First Nation people, and there are still some backwards people who don't acknowledge that - which makes my heart feel heavy.

America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

'Bloodless' reminded me a bit of 'Les Miserables' when it first came out.

Too far often, Black people are reminded of how far we have come as opposed to how far we can go. In doing this, we sleep on racism.

Opening up about racism and my challenges was overwhelming as it reminded me that we still live in a world where racism is normalised and accepted.

That was the moment I wanted to use bitcoin: when I saw Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill. It's like, when you see all the slave movies, it's like, why you gotta keep reminding us about slavery? Why don't you put Michael Jordan on a $20 bill?

The failure of both Congress and state legislatures to respond to the murder of George Floyd with any meaningful action reminds us that our nation's attempts at reform can often amount to nothing.

History reminds us, however, that good doesn't always prevail. Not against Russia anyway.

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

The removal of people of Japanese descent from their homes and their incarceration in camps were executed with the same sort of political calculus of fear and bigotry that Mr. Trump is using to redefine American immigration policy.

White people moving into Brooklyn, I don't see anything wrong with that. I think that's fine and I think that's beautiful, but to hear about certain black people whose rent is getting hiked up so high and they're not able to get leases renewed. Now that I think is wrong.

When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

I want to write the reparations joke that makes people go, 'Yay! I'm so happy!' It's easy to go onstage and just make fun of all the 'isms' instead, but we can't all be Jeff Dunham. Although that pays very well... it pays way better to be Jeff Dunham than it ever paid to be George Carlin or Lenny Bruce.

I keep trying to write the crowd-pleasing slavery joke and the crowd-pleasing reparations joke, but any time you mention slavery or reparations in any detail, it seems to bum lots of people out. That's a challenge I keep putting in front of myself.

You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.

I've heard it said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. To that end, I think it's worth noting that the very first police force in America was created as a 'patrol' to keep slave populations under control.

Never did I think I would live to see the day Jim Crow was resurrected, making repeat appearances in the South. And he has packed his bags, and he has moved North. Something is wrong.

Trans people have been repeatedly told that we don't have the right to live. And Black people have been told that by our slave masters and continue to be told that by society. We have, generationally, bled this kind of hatred.