Quotes About Injustice

Escucha las voces de los pequeños y los débiles, de las mujeres que se entregaron en vano, de las prostitutas riéndose de sus miserias, el rencor tenebroso de quienes están siempre enfermos. A los solitarios, ante quienes jamás se posó una sonrisa. Escucha a los niños que sollozan y se lamentan. Y los gritos impotentes de las que fueron seducidas en secreto.

Only those with whom life had dealt hardly, the wretched, the slighted, the uncertain, the unlovely, the humiliated, could really be helped by love.

fingernails were torn out with pliers.

Ninety percent of the population were serfs who could be beaten, killed, transported away from their family, or sold for a gambling debt or as collateral for a loan (a healthy male at the time would fetch between 200 and 500 rubles in the Moscow market; a good-looking young female, several times that).

factory had at its disposal 30,000 Jews, political prisoners

To be continually underestimated is a woman's lot.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.