Quotes About Injustice

If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.

Sometimes defenders kick me without the ball and I don't say anything and no one sees.

With the Kick It Out campaign, I was interested in asking: 'Why is antisemitism a lesser racism than other racisms?' I genuinely believe that to be the case - that negative stuff said against Jews isn't considered that important.

They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't want me to sing there anymore.

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

Everybody kicks those who do not have a country of their own.

And when 9/11 came, that was open season to violate human rights. And that's how I was kidnapped.

My name is Kim Phuc, though you likely know me by another name. It is one I never asked for, a name I have spent a lifetime trying to escape: 'Napalm Girl.'

My best friend in the Marines, her name is Kim, said one day while we were in Iraq that homosexuals in the Forces should be put on the front line because they deserved to die. This was my best friend talking.

The Congress and its kin parties such as the BJP are up to grab the rights of Dalits.

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.

There's all kinds of envy out there on the Left.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

I think the fact people still don't realise why people are taking a knee and saying 'Black Lives Matter,' people are being so close-minded to the fact that no one is disrespecting the flag, nobody is saying all lives don't matter.

At some point in time, we're going to have to stop addressing the kneeling, and we're going to have to start addressing what led Colin Kaepernick to kneel. That's the issue that nobody wants to talk about.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.

America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who cultivated it.

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them there were 'indentured laborers,' taken out of jails in England and Scotland and so forth and brought to the colonies to work out their terms in the fields and then be set free.

Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet."- Dageus