Quotes About Injustice

Just as twenty-first century masters of the universe exploit workers, lobby for tax loopholes, and devise or reap profits from predatory business practices, [Thomas] Jefferson and his peers found it very hard to give up the unearned advantages of systems of exploitation.

I thought of the courage it had taken for those young people in Tehran to go out into the streets holding those simple placards—"Where is my vote?"—with the openness and simplicity of a child, only to be razed down by bullets.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

Liberty and justice for all" were beautiful words, but the ugly fact was that liberty and justice were only for white males.

Thousands like me kept saying, "Let us in a little. Give us a piece of the pie." What hap- pened? Watts, Newark, Hartford. And what was the re- action? We started to hear a new jargon about "the urban crisis" and "law and order" and "crime in the streets.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

For Baby, the marriage was a bad one, but it never entered her head that she might complain or refuse to marry Ram. . . . Fortunately, in her eyes what others might have considered an injustice, she considered a law of life.

It is dangerous to feel sorry for one's oppressor — women are especially prone to this failing — but I am tempted to do it in this case. Being unable to love is hell.

Demek ki kad?n?n baÅŸlang?çta ve sonraki ezilmesine yol açan ÅŸey doÄŸurgan bedensel yap?s?d?r.

Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need to know is that the present system is destroying them.

As a chief justice of the United States once said, blacks were three-fifths of a human, and only a full human being should have rights, the implication being that three-fifths of a human being was something fit to function only as a beast of burden. Well, that is a distortion exposing the enemies of logic and reason, and among them are mass hysteria, hate, prejudice, and ignorance. With

There is a certain anger; it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage—self-destructive, destroy-the-world rage—and its flame burns because the world is so unjust.

a man the South African government evidently thought too dangerous to be free, but also by then too prominent to be killed.

Greed and cruelty are pretty widely distributed throughout humanity, as are their victims.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

D. Frederick Sparks

The truth is that the law enforcement system offers no effective protection for someone like Susan Butlin -- or Carla Samson. None.

In the name of "class struggle" and "the unified interest of the working class," the Left has always selected certain sectors of the working class as revolutionary subjects and condemned others to a merely supportive role in the struggles these sectors were waging.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

It was the members of the public who didn't seem to care what was happening on the streets around them, who hurried on by when they saw crimes being committed, too cowardly to intervene. Sometimes it seemed like the 'them' was everyone, and the 'us' was simply me, a lone copper engaged in a one-man battle against the injustices of the world.