Quotes About Injustice

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.

All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

The farther away you writers stay, the better I like it. You know why? Because you're trying to create a bad image of me... you do it because I'm black and Puerto Rican, but I'm proud to be Puerto Rican.

In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.

I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said.

No, my girl, you know nothing of how we women are imprisoned in our lives, but there are ways to determine the sentence we must serve.

Mergait?ms reikia šalto pyk?io. Joms b?tina apgalvota neapykanta, pagieža, leidžianti išvengti kompromis?, vengimas atleisti. Joms reikia žinoti, jog pasakyt? žodži? neatsiims, niekada, niekada. Tai kompensacija už ribotas moter? galimybes pasaulyje. <...> Stok skersai kelio moteriai, ir neabejok - ji nepamirš nuoskaudos ir puosel?s savo keršt? nors ir vis? amžinyb?, jei to reik?s.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness

if people believe in infinite bliss in the afterlife, they'll be more willing to accept an appalling degree of oppression and injustice in this life. From anybody. Oddly, this is often framed as a plus. "Religion gives people hope in hardship." It gets presented as a feature, not a bug.