Quotes About Injustice

We need to cure ourselves of being women. Not of being born women but of being brought up as women in a man's world, of going through each stage and each act of our lives with men's eyes and with men's criteria. And we'll never bring about this cure by continuing to listen to what these men gave to say in our name or for our good.

The discreet slaughter of fifteen or twenty wretched people per day will not prevent tramways from running to schedule, cafés from being full, or churches resounding with the Te Deum.

No one should ever be wrongfully deprived of their rights to liberty and freedom without just cause, yet in the past 25 years alone thousands of people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to tens of thousands of years in prison.

it is a fact that eleven million Africans were forcibly carried abroad, more than nine million of them to the Americas.

10 percent of the slaves on such voyages were killed in the insurrections (which totals one hundred thousand deaths, 1500–1867)

he sincerely loathed slavery; he called it "an abominable crime" and a blot on civilization.

she's never complained about her lot, or argued with him, a sure sign she's oppressed

in that moment all the painful history of four hundred years of slavery entered my body in a way it hadn't before and I broke down and sobbed, Dominique, I sobbed and realized more than ever that the white man has a lot to answer for

you can't sleep here because your colour will come off on the sheets, said the woman who had a sign for lodgings in her window, people was that rude and ignorant back then, they spoke their mind and didn't care that they hurt you because there was no anti-discrimination laws to stop them the only thing you can do is leave here and never come back, the policeman advised us when we went to complain

Penelope found it hard to imagine her mother had once been so rebellious and gregarious she felt sorry for her having to choose between a career or a family which seemed terribly unfair

Shirley had long felt angry on behalf of her brothers who'd also been harassed by the police since they were young all black men had to learn to handle it, all black men had to be tough and when the police killed or beat someone, they were allowed to investigate themselves, and exonerated the accused

Amma was shorter, with African hips and thighs perfect slave girl material one director told her when she walked into an audition for a play about Emancipation whereupon she walked right back out again

We slaves don't end relationships. Other people do it for us. Often we don't start them either, other people do it for us. We're encouraged to breed merely to increase the workforce.

Amma was shorter, with African hips and thighs perfect slave girl material one director told her when she walked into an audition for a play about Emancipation whereupon she walked right back out again in turn a casting director told Dominique she was wasting his time when she turned up for a Victorian drama when there weren't any black people in Britain then she said there were, called him ignorant before also leaving the room and in her case, slamming the door

When you're a slave you dream of either owning slaves or freeing them.

My own kind? If I had to pinpoint a moment when the human race divided into the severe distinctions of blak and whyte, that was it: people belonged to one of two colours and in the society I was about to join my colour, not my personality or ability, would determine my fate.

she'd seen people stand on the shoulders of hate and pluck money and power from the very top shelves of the universe.

Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.

J.W. and Roy didn't just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.

Not one word about income inequality, climate change, Citizens United or student debt. That's why the Rs are so out of touch.

we are living in a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension.

First of all, they came to take the gypsies and I was happy because they pilfered. Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing, because they were unpleasant to me. Then they came to take homosexuals, and I was relieved, because they were annoying me. Then they came to take the Communists, and I said nothing because I was not a Communist. One day they came to take me, and there was nobody left to protest. Bertold Brecht, inspired by Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Niemöller

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?