Quotes About Injustice

To add insult to injury.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun Tell me is it worth it all For I stole California from the Mexican land Fought in the bloody Civil War Yes I even killed my brothers And so many others But I ain't marchin' anymore

Julian bought a few bottles of wine and beer. In the car on the way to the house, Julian said, "Why? Why do these things happen to me; what did I do to deserve such a fate, such a thing? I always did my best, didn't I?

That night she again slept in the back of her brother's car, hidden under her raincoat, afraid of the rats, of the police, and of men who got their kicks from hurting women. Ruth knew it was a cruel world filled with people who were capable of terrible things.

As they entered, Richard glowered at them. Cynthia Haden couldn't look him in the eyes. She felt guilty about having convicted him. She thought the Hernandezes were so woefully inadequate that Richard hadn't gotten a fair shake. "He was sold down the river," she would later say, and would make correcting that "injustice" her life's work.

The torture of the victim lasted almost half an hour. It began when a man stepped forward and very matter-of-factly sliced off Hose's ears. Then several men grabbed Hose's arms and held them forward so his fingers could be severed one by one and shown to the crowd. Finally, a blade was passed between his thighs, Hose cried in agony, and a moment later his genitals were held aloft.

a ban on a Coney Island attraction known as "Negro Ball Dodging," in which whites hurled baseballs at Black men's heads as they appeared in the openings of a cloth or wooden facade.

Our efforts to unite God and country, to pretend as if their objectives and characters are one, is to create a tribal god, who cares only for its own and no one else. It is the god of limited love, who endorses massacres, holocausts, and injustice of every sort, so long as those tyrannies are directed against the other.

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

The poor were downtrodden. The press told lies. Truth existed nowhere. Everyone was motivated by money.

But I now had a keener appreciation of why people became Nazis in the first place; perhaps it was like he said: that they wanted to get away from dead-end, no-account places like Saarbrücken, wanted to achieve some sort of status among their fellow men, wanted their shitty, insignificant lives to mean something, even if they could find that meaning only in being mean to others—Jews, mostly, but anyone who didn't agree with them would do.

Nuremberg.' 'Well sir, it's this. It has crossed my mind that someone might be trying to sew the Jews into a very nasty body-bag.' Now the general raised an

Some 110,000 witch trials occurred at this time in Europe, roughly half of them ending in conviction and execution

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

Battering, drunken husbands had their wives psychiatrically imprisoned as a way of continuing to batter them; husbands also had their wives imprisoned in order to live or marry with other women.

still behave as if they've been "colonized.

rarely treated as the torture victims they really are.

Joy, laughter, love—real magic that changes things. Actions must be rooted in love, not in anger, even at injustice. To feel those things, you have to heal yourself, and help yourself, before you can truly help others. Change yourself and you change the world around you.

there was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim." He

My childhood was not always a happy one because we had to visit our father in jail, as my father was often imprisoned by the Pakistani rulers.

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.

My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

I've endured humiliating experiences trying to get a cab in the various cities I've visited and lived in. Available taxis - as indicated by their roof lights - locked their doors with embarrassingly loud clicks as I approached. Or they've just ignored my hail altogether.