Quotes About Injustice

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person's kindness can save a life.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

It wasn't really fair. He was only sorta human!

She clenched her fists. "I believe, milord, that I have endured my full limit of male tyranny." "I am afraid, milady, that you will have to become accustomed to it. It is the way of things, here in the world beyond your cloister." He turned her forward and nudged her to continue down the stairs. "This world would fall into chaos if women were allowed to do whatever they wished.

Now,' Kaine say, 'now this man free, bo'n free, but still, any white man what say he a slave be believed cause a nigga can't talk fo the laws, not ginst no white man, not even fo his own self.

If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way.

My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.

nineteenth-century Populist Party leader Tom Watson as he spoke to his white and black followers: "The accident of color can make no difference in the interest of farmers, croppers, and laborers … You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings."3

Certainly it's admirable for any given woman to learn to appreciate her own worth, despite all the countervailing forces. But it cannot be enough for those who are treated as lesser to feel better about themselves. That they are treated as lesser is an injustice. And that injustice itself must be rooted out and eradicated.

Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.