Quotes About Injustice

If I were a character in a novel, I'd snipe the bitch who wrote my life this way.

Through the annals of history, women have paid a price for protection. One day, I won't have to.

In 1963, Ebony magazine reported that "there [was] not one Negro in building trades apprenticeship training programs in Fort Wayne Indiana, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Baltimore, or Atlanta. Only two of 3,500 apprentices in all trades in Newark are Negro and in Chicago, where a quarter of the population is Negro, the apprentice figure is less than one percent.

There exists a solidarity among men as human beings that makes each co-responsible for every wrong and every injustice in the world, especially for crimes committed in his presence or with his knowledge. If I fail to do whatever I can to prevent them, I too am guilty.

They have suffered and risked death for their country while their commanding officers are becoming rich. 'Look at that lieutenant, how fat he is. How come the officers are all fat? None of us are fat, because we have no food.

The saddest part of it was that most of the troops fighting with the Portuguese were black Angolans. It has always been like that. Angolans killing Angolans.

The history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder.

To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum.

That left Jeb to work for whatever the bosses offered under the National Right to Work Act--the minimum wage having been abolished--enough to keep them fed and the car gassed but not enough for a roof or to save much more than coins.

There's something wrong in the world,' Sargam said, 'when good people, honest people, can't sleep under a roof or share a meal around a table.

No! I will not calm down! He should be fired. WE should have him fired! You're clearly depressed and he needs to help you. He can't tell you to try harder next time That's sick! SICK!

I had not realized how much anger I held against my heart for all the people who use others as nothing more than tools to build a house for themselves, who wrap chains around others and then claim they have the right and even the obligation to do so.

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.

And beauty has a quality all of its own that seems supreme; that seems above mere men with slaving ships and pistols...

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

The subordinated group has inadequate redress through existing political institutions, and is deterred thereby from organizing into conventional political struggle and opposition.

Mientras nosotras amábamos ellos gobernaban el mundo.

L'oppressione crea la psicologia dell'oppresso.

Las personas que tan apasionadamente desprecian a la mitad de sus compatriotas son incapaces de sentir el mínimo autorrespeto.

and Thomas Anstey Guthrie's Vice Versa: a Lesson to Fathers, a novel of 1882 about a schoolboy and his father, a City merchant, who exchange bodies and inhabit each others' lives. The boy's father is taught how trapped a lively-minded boy can feel when he has 'no money and few rights', 'virtually no way to assert himself in the world around him'.

And that is close to saying that a woman can have no needs, desires, purpose, or calling so compelling and so important that she should not set it aside in an instant, because of a stray sperm.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.