Quotes About Injustice

nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them

Indeed, if this woman had lived in the reign of James the First, her appearance alone would have hanged her, almost without any evidence.

And she really had tones to make justice weep.

there was something superior even in his injustice, and absolute in his mistakes.

The way certain classes arrogate to themselves the title of the people has never pleased me. Why are some human beings the people, and the people only, and others not? I am of the people myself, I have worked all my days like a knife-grinder, and I have really never changed.

I don't see why I should regard what is done here," said Bessie Alden. "Why should I suffer the restrictions of a society of which I enjoy none of the privileges?

Despite all the talk about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, electoral freedom, and so on, I dare say it would be a shock to know what the common man thinks about the problems which confront the world. The common man is always cleverly set off one against the other, children are always ruled out, young people are ordered to conform and obey, and the views of the wise, the saintly, the true servers of mankind, are forever scorned as impractical.

On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

The most ignorant and degenerate of them will be asked to shoulder a gun and fight for a civilization which has brought them nothing but misery and degradation.

En mi opinión, a ningún hombre se le ha sometido a una humillación mayor que a Moctezuma; ninguna raza ha sido exterminada más despiadadamente que la del indio americano; ninguna tierra ha sido violada de modo execrable e infame como lo fue California por los buscadores de oro. Siento vergüenza al pensar en nuestros orígenes: nuestras manos están empapadas de sangre y crimen.

Cuando pienso en algunos persas, los hindúes, los árabes que conocí, cuando pienso en el carácter de que daban muestras, en su gracia, en su ternura, en su inteligencia, en su santidad, escupo a los conquistadores blancos, los degenerados británicos, los testarudos alemanes, los relamidos y presumidos franceses.

These are the woes of Slaves; They glare from the abyss; They cry, from unknown graves, We are the Witnesses!

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice   Triumphs;

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free

This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that.

I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.'

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

I'm fighting back against years and years and years of the cultural and the political left telling people to sit down and shut up.

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.