Quotes About Injustice

Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.

Historical events never have simple or obvious implications. Some people thrived by using the very instruments intended to dispossess them.

You've killed all our leaders,I don't even have to do nothing to you,You'll cause your own country to fall.

Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail you The subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

He has become the victim of violation, raped of his soul essence and personality.

Everyone who knows about us wants to keep us apart from you. Your own people work against you! They want to contain you and control you.

This is what I'm really like, what I've always been like. I'm just lucky because I've found a way around the injustice, the fucking unbelievable injustice of nature. You think the decaying body was me? You think the sagging tits, the slab shanks, the dried up old cunt, was me. No. This is me. And it's the same for every god-damned ancient bint in the world, whatever nature's done to them. Just remember that.

There was so much unsaid about our history; so much pain contained there.

You have to remember we are in a part of the world where prejudice and injustice against women is high.

Racism is a by-product of ignorance,

So many Republicans embraced Trump's view that they were victims, as was he, because they had actually believed this all along. Theirs was a white birthright, and the rise of nonwhites was an unjust usurping of their rights.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Everybody's entitled to that forty acres and a mule. You're going to do the work, but you have to have something to work with. If you don't have a job, where do you go from there? You hear people say Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and you don't even have shoes. You're barefooted. What are you going to pull yourself up by? Our country owes every citizen of the United States of America a means of livelihood. Not a handout, but a way to make it.

You should have seen the things they were giving babies instead of milk. I remember seeing them put salt-pork gravy in milk bottles and putting a nipple on, and the baby sucking this salt-pork gravy. A real blue baby, dying of starvation. In house after house, I saw that sort of thing.

I don't know if I'm partisan to the underdog or whether I'm the underdog.

They say all people who lived under Hitler were bad because they fought the war with him. That is wrong. We can't say all people were bad. We must find out why they were with him. If you want to make something better, you must know the reasons why it was wrong and what has happened. My

This is human. It happened before. The Spanish, in the Inquisition, under God, destroyed an entire population. What about the Albigenses ? It can happen again. We are all good people, but if we are led a little too far, we are going to believe everything we are told. We are ordinary people, who can also be weapons for evil Hitlers.

We were born between blood and gunpowder; and between blood and gunpowder we were raised. Every so often the powerful from other lands came to rob us of tomorrow. For this reason it was written in a war song that unites us: "If a foreigner with his step ever dares to profane your land, think, Oh beloved motherland, that heaven gave you a soldier in each son." For this reason we fought. With flags and different languages the foreigner came to conquer us. He came and he went.

Subhadra Sen Gupta

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.