Quotes About Injustice

I don't feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I've sold millions of records.

There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.

A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King's words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the 'American problem' has yet to be solved.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

Some men are just disgusted with me and think I should have my mouth sewn shut.

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

It's ludicrous that someone can be fired from their job, refused care at a hospital or denied housing because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.