Quotes About Injustice

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

Facebook, Apple, Tinder, Snapchat, and Google create our social realities - how we make friends, how we get jobs, and how mankind interacts. And the truth is, women don't truly have a seat at the table.

Nobody bothered to ask me how I was doing when my livelihood was snatched away after the 'Horn Ok Pleassss' harassment episode.

The black community is under attack in so many different ways.

So many people put older women out to pasture.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

I've had so many people in my life put me down because of how I look. When I worked in restaurants, I had people say, 'I don't want her to serve my food,' because I looked dirty or something.

There is such a problem with racism, so to actually just say it and have so many people of colour message me and thank me for saying something... I remember when I used to cry about it to my manager I used to be like: 'Why do I feel like this?' and she'd never say it, and I'd never say it. It was really strange.

Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind of hard watching all these bands, who I really believed didn't deserve to be on top musically, going ahead and pushing us out.

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.

If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.

How do you force a man to fight – for freedom? The idiocy of it jarred him.

In a land where all slaves are servants, all servants are slaves, and thus ends democracy.

How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?

It is a formula that binds the victim to his victimization by linking his power to his status as a victim

First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.

Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.

Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another

Todos nosotros somos a la vez objeto de repugnancia y de envidia. Todos nosotros menos los muy pobres, los que sólo tienen por debajo de ellos el pozo séptico del infierno.

A democracy of knowledge has never existed , not because those who had knowledge possessed power, but because knowledge itself required humiliated bodies, including the bodies of those who possessed knowledge.

In our new world, patriarchy isn't only unjust. It is maladaptive.

I concluded that, unhappily, I'd been born into a world dominated by a rampaging monster called 'law' that was both all-powerful and all-stupid

Él todavía estaba en condiciones de decidir, pero como solamente tenía 11 años, era su padre quien decidía por él. ¿Por qué, Señor, por qué el mundo se organizaba tan rematadamente mal?