Quotes About Injustice

Wherever books are burned, ultimately people are also burned.

It was on the back of cotton, and thus on the backs of slaves, that the U.S. economy ascended in the world (p.119).

we prefer to erase the realities of slavery, expropriation, and colonialism from the history of capitalism, craving a nobler, cleaner capitalism.

His coming to you, and your loving him, was a counterbalance, in a way, to the world's mistreatment of pigs

People are cruel, and they will do anything.

The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots.

My consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be a part of scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery.

Bir kad?n?n bir tek temiz yaÅŸant?s? olmas? gerektiÄŸi, oysa bir erkeÄŸin biri temiz, öteki temiz olmayan iki tane yaÅŸant?s? olabileceÄŸi düÅŸüncesi çileden ç?kar?yordu beni.

I couldn't stand the idea of women having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

You blow up innocent people and get nuts to shoot cops. Get all the angry losers to burn cars in the streets. You're not saving anybody from anything.

Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.

It's the same old story— 'Yes, it's too bad, but go suffer somewhere else. . . .

My mother was mad, as I suppose I too am now mad. What else can people be who have their entire lives snatched away from them, and for no greater crime than being what they are? The choking, stifling unfairness of it is a permanent sore -- one that can be lived with but never forgotten.

Öyle görünüyor ki biz kad?nlar, hem kad?nlar hem erkekler taraf?ndan maruz b?rak?ld???m?z kabul edilemez muamele ve davran??lar? düzeltmek için toplu bir bilinçlenmeyle biraraya gelip güçlerimizi birleÅŸtirmezsek, bu gezegende güvensizlik, çaresizlik ve kendinden nefret üstüne kurduÄŸumuz hayatlar? daha uzun süre yaÅŸamaya mahkum olaca??z.

Everyone was a victim of something.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

Stefan spat. Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.

Why does he speak of them that way? The crow-man wanted to know. They are humans, just like he is. I don't think he sees them as just like him. Ally explained. He is foolish then, said Nawat. There are more raka than Bronaus.

She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parahan as she walked over to the mules. It wasn't fair that men didn't have to twist themselves into knots to pee!

Niko, these women deserve better than to have a monster pick them off one by one while those who should protect them say it's alright if they die, as long as they don't spread the pollution of their deaths around.

How many black boys Jamil's age would one day end up staring down the barrel of a police officer's gun because of a quick assumption, or fear?

All at once she saw a young man bound on a wheel of iron; his hair was black, his white body marbed with purple wounds, and his face forever empty.

It would seem it was one thing to be murdered, another to be humiliated.