Quotes About Injustice

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.

The river that everything drags is known as violent, but nobody calls violent the margins that arrest him.

Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness, Could never be friendly ourselves.

The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. And anyone who wants a crumb of this exploitation for himself must obey the law strictly.

1.Tanr?: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, baya??l?k, pislik! DoÄŸay? da katletmiÅŸler.Güzelim aÄŸaçlar? tellerle idam etmiÅŸler.DaÄŸlar?n ötesinde duman bulutlar?ndan göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsünün yerini top sesleri alm??. Bütün bunlar?n aras?nda paças?n? kurtarabilen tek kiÅŸiye rastlamad?k.

For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you.

it doesn't matter what professors Or smart-alecks think; all that counts is how the little Man sees his master. Basta.

Hay muchas maneras de matar. Pueden meterte un cuchillo en el vientre. Quitarte el pan. No curarte de una enfermedad. Meterte en una mala vivienda. Empujarte hasta el suicidio. Torturarte hasta la muerte por medio del trabajo. Llevarte a la guerra... Solo algunas están prohibidas en nuestro Estado.

La legge è fatta esclusivamente per lo sfruttamento di coloro che non la capiscano, o ai quali la brutale necessità non permette di rispettarla.

LOS DE ARRIBA se han reunido en una sala. Hombre de la calle: abandona toda esperanza. Los gobiernos firman pactos de no agresión. Hombre pequeño: escribe tu testamento.

Do rio que tudo arrasta se diz que é violento, mas ninguém diz violentas as margens que o comprimem.

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

Unmarried women of all ages suffer under comparatively few disabilities; it is marriage which brings with it the weight of injustice and of legal degradation.

My heart revolts against the spectre of Almighty indifferent to the pain of sentient being. My conscience rebels against the injustice, the cruelty, the inequality that surrounds me on every side.

In savage times marriage was a matter either of force, fraud, or purchase. Women were merchandise, by the sale of whom their male relatives profited, or they were captives in war, the spoil of the conqueror, or they were stolen away from the paternal home. In all cases, however, the possession once obtained, they became the property of the men who married them, and the husband was their "lord," their "master."

I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a white man approached and shouted: 'Get off!' It never occurred to him that he was achieving the opposite of his dreams of superiority and had become a living object of contempt, that human beings, when they are human, dare not conduct themselves in such ways.

Before the white man became universally disliked for his mental outlook, it was there. The white man found only too many people who looked different. That was all that outraged the receivers of his discrimination, that he applied the technique of the wild jiggling dance and the rattling tin cans to anyone who was not a white man.

once you make yourself a freak and special any bastard starts to use you. That's half of the fierce fight in Africa' — Elizabeth

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.