Quotes About Injustice

economic grievances become much more acute when they are attached to feelings of indignity and disrespect.

Slavery and serfdom, while not unknown in tribal societies, expand enormously under the aegis of states.

In societies where most politicians are corrupt, singling one out for punishment is often not a sign of reform but of a power grab.

La corrupción política es el padre y la madre de la expansión de la violencia organizada en México»

en México «hay un pacto de impunidad tácito entre los políticos». Los políticos no investigan a otros políticos;

la corrupción, un cáncer pavoroso que nos devora hasta nuestros días, llegó con los españoles, al igual que la viruela y otras devastadoras enfermedades?

no sería bueno que los mexicanos dejaran de creer en unos hombres que en su mayoría sólo han asesinado, robado y castrado las conciencias?

History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.

The discovery that imperialism was immoral took some time to sink in. Almost a decade later a former colonial governor noted in quiet disbelief that 'there are those who believe that any form "colonialism" is inherently evil'.

There are special reasons, too, why I should handle this story. Oscar Wilde was a friend of mine for many years: I could not help prizing him to the very end: he was always to me a charming, soul-animating influence. He was dreadfully punished by men utterly his inferiors: ruined, outlawed, persecuted till Death itself came as a deliverance.

Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

to see a nigger you kill a nigger.

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother-country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.

When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, we can no longer breathe

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

I speak of the Christian religion, and no one need be astonished. The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor. And as we know, in this matter many are called but few chosen.