Quotes About Injustice

It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA of this country, like we saw in Ava DuVernay's film '13th.' The cycle keeps repeating itself.

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

I've read some amazingly derogatory things about me over the years and I've sat there and thought: if you replaced 'ginger' with 'black' or even 'Asian,' you'd be up in front of a judge.

The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.

I spent a long time reporting on trans issues, and I know in the course of that reporting I saw how deeply adversity runs.

I find it reprehensible that anyone would seek to denigrate the legacy of Dr. King in any way.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

The Clintons represent three decades of the Democrat party being completely sure of getting the black vote, while doing nothing to help the black community in return.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter.

We have the right to be angry about our representation in the media. It's just not a reflection of how we live our daily lives.

They're not going to have a homeless person on a poster representing New York.

My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

The brutality against the Baloch people represents the worst form of State oppression.

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free. The repressed are not free to do what they want. That's what 'Star-Crossed' was all about for me.

Women in Tamil Nadu are repressed. This must change.

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.