Quotes About Injustice

There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.

Any time something goes wrong, Republicans pick on women and minorities.

It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

This society, it hurts me, man.

The economic freedom has come to a lot of us who are lucky, but many women are still beaten up by husbands, even when they are breadwinners.

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.

Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.

'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.

All too often, girls are ignored because their challenges aren't thought to be as serious as those faced by boys.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

For a long time, the Indonesian government ignored 'The Act of Killing,' hoping it would go away.

Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all kinds of malice and violence and ill will. It's been that way since black people were brought to this country.

If we can look at another human being and categorise them as 'illegal,' or that chilling American word 'alien,' then what has become of our own humanity?

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.