Quotes About Injustice

You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Forsyth

When it came to evil, to tolerate was to accommodate, to accommodate was to appease, and to appease was to concede defeat.

Mannon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

I am tired of ruling over slaves.

The every day activity of slaves reproduces slavery

The darkling plain is here. This is the waste land: England, America, Russia, China, Israel, France.... And we are here as victims, or as spectators, or as perpetrators of tortures, massacres, poisonings, manipulations, despoliation.

Dann waren Sie der Richter, und ich der Henker.

ogni tirannia diventa davvero insopportabile solo nella misura in cui è solidamente fondata. Niente al mondo, infatti, l'uomo sopporta con più difficoltà di una giustizia implacabile

Die Welt machte mich zu einer Hure, nun mache ich sie zu einem Bordell.

The world made a whore of me, now I'll make a whorehouse of the world

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Life is not fair in that way or any other way. We are who and what we are.

They will imprison you simply for who and what you are

Renford's father got me from behind with a hoe.

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.