Quotes About Injustice

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. —Desmond Tutu2

neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

Boney M. were not allowed to do interviews, they were not allowed to choose their costumes. They looked like slaves, and this was the producer's take.

The intolerance of people against other people is growing and growing. And the thing is, this is not anything that's changed. This has been going on for years.

Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.

When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.

I remember the first time that I realized that being black meant that I wasn't allowed certain things. It was in the fourth grade, and it was who I thought was my best friend not inviting me to his birthday party because I would be the only black kid there. It was the first time I ever felt restricted, and it certainly wasn't the last time.

I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

We all need to be a part of the fight against injustice, insecurity and irresponsibility towards children and the world.

If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other people harm black people. I think it's an irresponsible argument.

We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better.

We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it's not very good at delivering justice.

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

I'd been going to jail for like, 10 years before the Stonewall.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

People have died in jail that have been innocent.

If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.

I worked with guys in Japan that were champions and they came over here for six months or a year and they treated them like garbage.

Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal.

It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.

I believe in God, in Jesus Christ. I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.