Quotes About Injustice

Charles Maddox noted that "when I am told that the flag means 'nigger on top,' and that I can't stand under it and cast my ballot without asking a nigger's permission, then I think it is time to rescue the flag from the infamy that threatens

The Southerners, he concluded, "seceded over one thing and fought over one thing, slavery.

Herein lies one of the most tragic elements to emerge from my research: that every black parent of a teenage child I spoke to had factored in the possibility that this might happen to their kid. Indeed

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.

American police terrorism was created to control the black and brown people of slavery. This remains vivid today. We need change across this country and accountability for our loved ones whose lives have been stolen by American terrorism. Who will govern the government when they continue to murder American citizens? Injustice in this country is pitiful and pathetic.

If we speak of an angry God at all, we will speak of a God angry at indifference, angry at apathy, angry at racism and violence, angry at inhumanity, angry at waste, angry at destruction, angry at injustice, angry at hostile religious clannishness. That anger is never against us (or them); it is against what is against us (and them).

Come on man, speak in English. For the benefit of the colonist? He's a decent man. Aren't they all at some level?

she had little use for separate but so-called equal. My mother understood from her Southern roots a basic principle that still rings true; where there's a white presence, there will be amenities. She wanted grocery stores with quality produce, and roads that got repaired and streeetlights that came on magically at dusk and garbage that got collectd on time.

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?

Growing up can really suck, he thought. And bad things sure as shit do happen to good people and for the most part the world just doesn't give a crap.

Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another. If it wasn't drugs, then there was always something else.

There is no doubt that the destiny of indigenous races has been tragic in the process of contact with European invasion… The historian of the future will have to register that Europeans in the past sometimes exterminated whole island peoples; that they expropriated most of the patrimony of savage races; that they introduced slavery in a specially cruel and pernicious form; and that even if they abolished it later, they treated the expatriated Negroes as outcasts and pariahs.

I am really pleased that we managed to go a little beyond the white, middle class view on suffrage and women's rights, although not far enough.

One reason Muslims are so angry at the West is because seven-eighths of the Muslim world was occupied and ruled by "Christian" nations until the end of World War II. I

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Throughout the South, one out of every three children born into slavery died before reaching his or her first birthday; a white infant's chance of surviving was twice as good.50 Conditions were even harsher in the rice and sugar districts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana.

It was the nearly universal determination of southern whites to keep blacks subordinate that ultimately proved to be the secessionists' strongest card.

Owning other human beings outright shaped the very core of the typical planter's personality. At home, after all, they were at once employers, legislators, policemen, prosecutors, judges, juries, jailers, and executioners.

At prices quoted on the markets of the day, those nearly four million human beings were worth something like $3 billion—an immense sum, especially at that time, a sum that exceeded the value of all the farmland in all the states of the South, a sum fully three times as great as the construction costs of all the railroads that then ran throughout all of the United States.

In 1860, nearly all whites regarded African Americans as inherently inferior, degraded, and dangerous, and found the idea of living alongside them as anything like equals simply inconceivable.