Quotes About Injustice

Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.

La respuesta habitual a las atrocidades es borrarlas de la conciencia. Ciertas violaciones de! orden social son demasiado terribles como para pronunciarlas en voz alta: ese es el significado de la palabra impronunciable.

The righteous anger of women and other subordinated groups, which violates dominant norms of compliant and willing submission, is always particularly threatening

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

It is, however, not only undignified to idealize political victims; it is also very dangerous. One of our political actualities is that the victims of political torture and injustice are often no better than their tormentors. They are only waiting to change places with the latter. Of course, if one puts cruelty first this makes no difference. It does not matter whether the victim of torture is a decent man or a villain. No one deserves to be subjected to the appalling instruments of cruelty.

Treachery, disloyalty, cruelty, tyranny ... are our ordinary vices. - Montaigne, "Of Cannibals

I explained to her how the international corporations and banks that came to my school refused to interview women for jobs because women, they said, could not be in business. She

Unacknowledged privilege and the subtle or blatant use of power over others inevitably create division, anger, disempowerment, depression, shame, and disconnection.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Una buona memoria non smette mai di verbalizzare l'ingiustizia. Annulla le possibilità di stupirsi e insegna a tacere.

Look around us in this world, how it suffers!

Foreign visitors who concerned themselves with the plight of the Jews – and the majority did not – had to deal with an unanswerable question. How was it possible for these warm-hearted, genial people, noted for their work ethic and devotion to family values, to treat so many of their fellow Germans with such contempt and cruelty?

The demands of war provided Hitler with just the excuse he was looking for to rid the regime not only of Jews, but also of Gypsies, socialists, the disabled and mentally ill, homosexuals, Poles, communists, or anyone else who did not fit the National Socialist ideal. The elimination of those deemed undesirable became an issue of prime importance.

Once the means to kill children had been established, it was only a matter of months before the programme was extended to include adults living in asylums or other such institutions.

As Americans gained a new belief in their manifest destiny around the globe, Hawaiians lost their country, the first sovereign nation to become a casualty of America's imperial outreach.

They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!

If that which conspires to silence poor people had hands, shame would be its thumbs.

Qué mundo es éste en el que las mujeres necesitan que unos hombres las protejan de otros hombres! Más os valía cambiar vosotros en vez de meternos en jaulas para que otros no puedan dañarnos.

Los ignorantes odian lo que desconocen, pero además en la historia de Europa hay momentos execrables: La Inquisición, los pogromos... El judío es el extranjero o el diferente, alguien a quien culpar de todos los males de la sociedad. Ésa es la excusa que utilizan los poderosos para desvia la atención de sus responsabilidades hacia la propia sociedad.

Tiene gracia que usted me pregunte por qué no nos rebelamos cuando ustedes viven bajo la bota de Sadam.

El judío es el extranjero o el diferente, alguien a quien culpar de todos los males de la sociedad.

La maldad no está en nosotros sino en quienes se niegan a vernos como seres humanos.