Quotes About Injustice

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

John Stuart Mill, highlighting how a small group may be victimized by a larger group

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with arms meant to be used by intelligence and virtue, which he may use for the worst ends.

I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.'

Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.

Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, 'So, where were you interned?'

A lot of political things would have to dramatically change in this planet for a woman of color to be carefree.

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

There is no need to subject people in capitalism to additional suffering; the point is to get them to recognize that the suffering they are already undergoing is caused by capitalism.

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

The one-word story about why I have a chip on my shoulder is 'bullying.'

I cannot support a measure that chooses to protect some women and not others.

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.

It's the whole white-supremacist movement, no matter what they call themselves - be it Klan, Nazis, alt-right, skinheads - the basic ideology is the same. They consider themselves superior to others because of their white skin, and we should not sleep on that.