Quotes About Injustice

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

If there is no truth, there is no injustice.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great.

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

Those who tried to escape received the customary punishment, as Nicholson harrowingly described: After they had stripped the sufferer naked, they inserted the iron pointed stake into the lower termination of the vertebrae, and thence forced it up near his back bone, until it appeared between the shoulders, avoiding the vital parts. The stake was then raised in the air and the poor sufferer exposed to the view of the other slaves, writhing in…insupportable agony.

In Egypt, in Shushan, in the time of Judah Maccabee, God had intervened to deliver us with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; big deal. When we were sent to the ovens, God had sat with His outstretched thumb up His mighty ass and let us burn.

Ten years might as well be a hundred if you are doing time for a crime you didn't commit, he said.

It sometimes seemed to her as though the biggest barricades in the so-called justice system were on the inside, before you even got out the door.

It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit.

There was something deeply affecting about that. Something unfair that went beyond the general unfairness of death at the hands of another. She wondered how men would live if they knew that in every moment of their lives, their size and nature made them vulnerable to the opposite sex.

I wanted to tell him that the judge was being insensitive and probably racist.

the biggest barricades in the so-called justice system were on the inside, before you even got out the door.