Quotes About Injustice

But this isn't human! When has this country ever been human, Abelard? You're the historian. You of all people should know that.

No hay nadie más opresor que el que ha sido oprimido.

You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

On the walk home a Jeep roars past; the driver calls you a fucking towelhead. One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem about you online. It's called "El Puto.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

They're calling being black a look? How progressive of them.

But when the synod gathered, the bishop of Tucumán, a friend of the accused, wrenched the documents from the archbishop's hands and burned them in the oven of a bakery. In

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Ah well." Gignomai turned slowly round. "It's not often commented on, but when you stop and think, mercy is the biggest injustice of them all.

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

To look into the sad eyes of a hungry child or see the wasted life of a drug addict is to see only the evidence of Satan's hold on this world. All bad things, whether in Asia or America, are his handiwork.

permanent form of cruelty.

What is it about me that threatens them so much they would rather see carnage like this than just let me live my life?", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

Our faith in the Trinity puts us under an obligation to struggle at every level, from the strictly personal to the highly organized, against all forms of oppression, injustice and exploitation. In our combat for social righteousness and "human rights", we are acting specifically in the name of the Holy Trinity.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

In his prison poems, the bars on his windows are merely the grid through which he sees shooting stars, each lash of a whip is a reminder of the insecurity of tyrants, and a rumour that orders for his execution have been dispatched is reason to weep for the executioner.

Masses of Iraqis keep on dying for no palpably tangible reason that they can so much as identify to themselves, far less anyone else. Why?

Who is it that gave people so many desires and then straight away refused to grant any of them? I don't know who it was that made this world, but I know I hate him.

George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

Something must be done!' 'It's because you don't live here,' Blago snorted. 'You still believe in justice.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.