Quotes About Injustice

Ethical loneliness is what happens when wrongs are compounded by going cruelly unacknowledged.

It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote.

Oh, wonderful, a president who hates immigrants.

Harper was well aware of how pretty white women enchanted society. Girls with brown skin like hers disappeared every day and people on the internet barely batted an eye.

Why us? How did we luck into this life? How is that fair? To be born into a life without a choice in the matter, without the freedom to be anyone else?

Maybe that was why it was almost always the underclasses, the women, the people of color, the gay people, the ones who were already stigmatized as being vulnerable, availble, trapped by the body, who took the risk of the wire.

like all of her, wrong sex, wrong class, wrong attitude...

As Thomas Wright writes in an article from the book Co-Dependency, An Emerging Issue, "I suspect codependents have historically attacked social injustice and fought for the rights of the underdog. Codependents want to help. I suspect they have helped. But they probably died thinking they didn't do enough and were feeling guilty.

when a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.

There's no justice for the poor man. Money buys justice, and I have no doubt there's a great deal of money in that man's pockets to buy the finest judge on the bench.

There were all kinds of things that people could have done and should have done that would have prevented it. And they didn't. Because the people in power liked where they were just fine, thanks, and they stayed there because of people with money. And the people with the money didn't want to lose a single cent of that money doing the right things. Power makes you stop thinking of anything but yourself.

Knowledge will always be the best weapon against tyrants.

These spiders spun a cunning web, beginning as they always did by eroding conditions gradually, with rights converted to privilege, then the privilege revoked on one pretense or another, always for an excellent reason, always on a temporary basis, until the next privilege was taken and the previous grievance forgotten.

Had she been fully white, had she been a man, Alderscroft would have had her brought into the fold and properly taught immediately.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

to not understand neocolonialism is to not fully live in the present.

To be an oppressor is dehumanizing and anti-human in nature, as it is to be a victim.

No other group in America has used black people as metaphors as extensively as white women involved in the women's movement.

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.

Much of what has been perceived by whites as an Amazonic trait in black women has been merely stoical acceptance of situations we have been powerless to change.

But simply being the victim of an exploitative or oppressive system and even resisting it does not mean we understand why it's in place or how to change it.