Quotes About Injustice

por qué tengo que ser madura para todo, como maduro ser juzgado, expulsado, acusado de trotskista, como persona madura ser enviado a la mina, pero por qué en el amor no puedo ser una persona madura y debo tragar toda la inmadurez?

Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which we are born and from which we can escape only with the greatest of efforts, p. 137.

La justicia no es cuestión de hombres. Existe la justicia de las leyes ciegas y crueles y luego hay, quizás, alguna justicia más elevada, pero ésa no la entiendo. Siempre he tenido la sensación de que vivo en este mundo al margen de la justicia.

Aber gerade der Schwache muss stark sein können und weggehen, wenn der Starke zu schwach ist, dem Schwachen ein Unrecht antun zu können.

Aujourd'hui l'âme de la foule, qui s'identifiait peut-être jadis aux misérables persécutés, s'identifie à la misère des persécuteurs. Parce que la chasse à l'homme est en notre siècle la chasse aux privilégiés : à ceux qui lisent des livres ou qui ont un chien.

L'anima della folla, che forse un tempo si identificava con i miseri perseguitati, si identifica oggi, con la miseria dei persecutori. Perché nel nostro secolo la caccia all'uomo è caccia ai privilegiati. A quelli che leggono libri o che hanno un cane.

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people's shit?

I hate how white people always try to take credit for something after they discover it. Like it wasn't happening before they found out about it--which most times is always late, and they didn't have nothing to do with it happening.

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

We are powerful beyond measure, and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate.United.

I suppose it is just one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn . . .

ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling.

That combination of forces—the over-lord, the white woman, and the black man—would have cost some—probably all of them—their lives in the Southern States of America.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man—the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reasons. —Abraham J. Heschel, rabbi and philosopher (1907–72)

In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.

Locate an evil, and you'll find the love of money at or near the root of it.

This papal document—which has not yet been repudiated by the Catholic Church—was the basis for the Christian justification of colonialism and the building of competitive Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, Belgian, German, and other Euro-Christian empires that spanned the world.13 It was the genocide card that was given to every white Christian nation.

The people of Hispaniola had their lives unjustly and savagely taken by professed Jesus followers, and they were not, as we all know, the only ones to meet such a fate. Millions of their Indigenous sisters and brothers on Turtle Island were killed at the hands of other Europeans, as nation after imperial nation, bearing Christ on their lips and crosses on their military standards, followed suit.21

As the Navajo and Christian activist Mark Charles explains, when citizens of the thirteen British colonies composed the Declaration of Independence, among their complaints against King George was that he didn't allow them to apply the Doctrine of Discovery to the people of the lands to their west.22 The Declaration described the indigenous peoples as "merciless Indian savages," clearly not counted among the "all men" whom God supposedly "created equal.

The blood of innocents has always been the currency of charismatic leaders, Kwyna said

The blood of innocents has always been the currency of charismatic leaders.