Quotes About Injustice

It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.

twenties, served as his judge in 1937 and even denounced a

history has been recorded by the victors, not the defeated or disenfranchised.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

When the missionaries came to Africa," Desmond Tutu famously (though not originally: that honor belongs to Jomo Kenyatta) remarked, "they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

Nous ne te voulons pas de mal, mais nous avons un sens africain de la race. Les blancs sont des blancs, mais vous autres descendants d'esclaves, vous n'êtes rien. Ce n'est pas ta faute, et ce n'est pas la nôtre : tu n'es rien. Tu es un, comme chaque poisson du fleuve.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

What I had not known was that perception of people like us did not quite coincide with our perception of who we were and what we were about.  More than anything, however, being a domestic servant did more to me than it did for me. It introduced me to the fundamentals of racism.

It was natural given such clear teachings that I readily took the blame for the disastrous situation in which I found myself. My understanding of my religion offered me little solace. Indeed, by encouraging self-blame, it deprived me of a sense of justice...of being the injured one.

CWC (Church Women Concerned) enabled us as women in that part of South Africa, to see ourselves as ordinary citizens who found themselves in decidedly far from ordinary circumstances. In truth, some of us were not even considered citizens, strictly speaking: the African had, by this time, been completely deprived of that privilege.

Racism was never a one race phenomenon.

The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

The genius of women has always been easy to discount, suppress, or attribute to the nearest man. When

Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a child. He identified with children and with the child-like - those who are not in power and who suffer under the fickle and often sadistic demands of those who are.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

I love black people, but I hate niggers.

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.