Quotes About Injustice

Layoffs were upon us. They had been rumored for months, but now it was official. If you were lucky, you could sue. If you were black, aged, female, Catholic, Jewish, gay, obese, or physically handicapped, at least you had grounds.

But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore?

Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human enslavement.

We charge the American Government with genocide. In clear, unequivocal terms, we charge the American government with genocide against the captive Black people in America who are perpetually under siege.

The world can see what goes on in the tombs of America as Black people are being slowly strangled and suffocated to death. . . .

There's little difference between a lynching by the KKK and a police officer who puts a bullet in the head of a young Black man, and it happens time and time again.

Some people," Aunt Emily answered sharply, "are so busy seeing all sides of every issue that they neutralize concern and prevent necessary action. There's no strength in seeing all sides unless you can act where real measurable injustice exists. A lot of academic talk just immobilizes the oppressed and maintains oppressors in their positions of power.

Después de ser máquinas del fisco español, hemos pasado a serlo del fisco nacional: he aquí todo la diferencia.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won't be you; you can't afford them.

Mujeres somos y hemos de defendernos en un mundo mal guisado por hombres turbulentos y menguados de raciocinio.

La tragedia absoluta proclama axiomáticamente que es mejor no nacer o, en en caso que esto ya no sea posible, morir joven. El modelo <> de la condición del hombre y de la mujer considera a éstos intrusos no deseados de la creación, seres destinados a padecer sufrimientos y frustraciones inmerecidos, incomprensibles y arbitrarios

Habrá hombre de sangre tan fría que no brame de ira al ver entrar a un ignorante ministro el tribunal que en tono despótico manda abrir los estantes, registra los libros que con tanto afán y gastos se han adquirido, y los lleva a podrirse amontonados en una sala del al Inquisición, con miles otros que han tenido la misma suerte?

O tal vez, se me ocurrió en algún momento, Colombia nunca había dejado de ser una colonia, y el tiempo y la política simplemente cambiaban un colonizador por otro. Pues la colonia, igual que la belleza, está en el ojo de quien la admira.

El olvido era lo único democrático en Colombia: los cubría todos, a los buenos y a los malos, a los asesinos y a los héroes como la nieve en el cuento de Joyce, cayendo sobre todos por igual.

he understood that terrible truth: that they were killed by the same people. Of course I'm not talking about the same individuals with the same hands, no. I'm talking about a monster, an immortal monster, the monster of many faces and many names who has so often killed and will kill again, because nothing has changed here in centuries of existence and never will change, because this sad country of ours is like a mouse running on a wheel.

El reino de los cielos debe existir por los pobres de espíritu o la única ley de la vida es la injusticia.

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

en ningún sitio está escrito que la historia sea o racional o justa.

It does away with a lot of complaints that 'We Were Also Done Wrong,' from the Irish or other minorities, precisely because it recognizes the fundamental difference. African Americans were kept down by the force of law, not custom, and then every effort to lift the burden of the law was met with denial of due process.

Marshall's resolve to use sociological studies in the schools cases was rooted in his life experience—as the son of a bright man who never got an education and never became more than a waiter. Marshall saw the same trap still catching many young black people. They were defeated at a young age by limits they accepted about their talents and their right to an education.

Reparations, on the other hand, require black Americans to embrace a self-image of weakness and take on the cloak of a broken people.

Foolish men who accusea woman mindlessly—you cannot even seeyou cause what you abuse.

In order to gain their freedom, survivors may have to give up almost everything else. Battered women may lose their homes, their friends, and their livelihood. Survivors of childhood abuse may lose their families. Political refugees may lose their homes and their homeland. Rarely are the dimensions of this sacrifice fully recognized.

Working with victimized people requires a committed moral stance. The therapist is called upon to bear witness to a crime. She must affirm a position of solidarity with the victim. This does not mean a simplistic notion that the victim can do no wrong; rather, it involves an understanding of the fundamental injustice of the traumatic experience and the need for a resolution that restores some sense of justice.