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Quotes About Injustice

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
~ Ed Miliband
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.
~ Martin Niemoller
I don't think I am doing any injustice to my fans by not being accessible socially.
~ Akshaye Khanna
I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led to extraordinary cultural contributions that I'm very proud of, but it's not a real category and our society is damaged by insisting on it.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.
~ Earl Sweatshirt
Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.
~ Teju Cole
Every single girl in the world has had to fight to have herself heard, to have space, and to have a self in societies that try their best to deny them all three.
~ Marjorie Liu
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
~ Simone Weil
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
~ Thomas Hardy
Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
~ Ephraim Mirvis
British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
~ Salman Rushdie
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
~ John Dalberg-Acton
Proprietary software is an injustice.
~ Richard Stallman
We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines.
~ Alan Cooper
For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.
~ Niger Innis
After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
~ Naomi Klein
They said if you are in China you have to be sold, you have to get married. And something that still saddens me is that I actually didn't care, I was so hungry.
~ Park Yeon-mi
Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
~ Mary Harris Jones
We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
~ Malcolm X
When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.
~ Sonita Alizadeh
I never thought, in my life, I'd be sold. It's painful to say, as a human, 'I was sold.'
~ Nadia Murad
My mum was sold for $65 and I was sold for $260 - at the age of 13.
~ Park Yeon-mi
I often compared myself with a slave. Slaves were taken forcibly from Africa, and so was I. Slaves were sold a couple of times on their way to their final destination, and so was I. Slaves suddenly were assigned to somebody they didn't choose, and so was I.
~ Mohamedou Ould Slahi
I was a slave. I was sold in China in 2007 as a child at 13 years old.
~ Park Yeon-mi