Quotes About Injustice

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.

Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other American nation and was the last country in the hemisphere to abolish the institution, in 1888.

Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?

Why would the moneyed be granted higher education and an intelligent student be deprived because his father has no money? This is, after all, a democracy.

If college cut-offs are above 90 per cent in a particular class, then where would mediocre students with 60 per cent or 70 per cent go? Students who secure 60-70 per cent marks are also intelligent, but they could not get admission in courses of their choice for scoring lower marks than the toppers.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can't really pick it apart. It's all intertwined.

Slavery is back but never went away

I did not want to see how careless this whole system is for so many, how easy it is to fall through the cracks.

Most taxi drivers won't bring folks to our street They say they could get shot or killed So I wonder what that makes me A person who is bulletproof or already dead

Hysteria--a word to make women feel insane for knowing what they know.

The members of the Massachusetts Court removed Anne because her moral certitude was too much like their own.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

I would like to see all this as a big joke that is being played upon us, but I have seen what was wrought in the past--the men who were destroyed without their being lifted from the dungheap of poverty, without recourse to justice.

Can't you hear the hell hounds of society bay in full pursuit behind us?

Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Frederick Douglass saw the same connection. When his master heard that young Frederick was reading well, he was furious, saying, "Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. If he learns to read the Bible it will forever unfit him to be a slave." Douglass recalled that he "instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.