Quotes About Injustice

You had heard of a caterpillar that couldn't turn into a butterfly. And you would like to examine how it would feel to be denied such a beautiful thing. You would like to know how it feels for the caterpillar to watch other caterpillars transform while all the time knowing he would never have that opportunity.

Por qué no podía, al menos por una vez, descubrir que tenía poderes mágicos? No era justo, a las chicas americanas en las películas siempre les ocurría...

Kim sÄ… ci ludzie?- powtarza Herc Szemec. - To ?ydki. Å»ydki, które coÅ› knujÄ…. Wiem, ?e to tautologia.

Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man?

An Austrian philosopher named Jean Améry, tortured by the Gestapo because of his activity with the Belgian resistance and then deported to Auschwitz because he was a Jew, wrote that anyone who has been tortured remains forever tortured and can never again be at ease in the world. One's faith in humanity is broken and can never be acquired again.

There is an old Russian saying: When fingernails are being pulled out in Moscow, fingers are being chopped off in the provinces. That saying one can take at full value.

For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints.

And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that slavery was finally concentrated in Africa on Blacks only? In short, no books or other studies in high school and college answered or gave clues to answers to the problems that puzzled me the most.

questions which none seemed able to answer :How is it that white folks have everything and we have nothing? Slavery-how and why did we become their slaves in the first place? White children go to fine brick, stone and marble schools nine months a year while we go to a ramshackle old barn-like building only five-and-ahalf months, then to the cotton fields. Why?

This was the trump card male bullies played, always. I was sick of it—sick of being scared of the bogeyman's dick.

Nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough...

Dixie people wouldn't have listened to a black woman

I have always been fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.

I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said 'Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?' And she's like 'Oh, no, you can't come to my house 'cause my parents don't like black people.'

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

White Americans have a short memory.

There is no justice among men.

The industry is a menace to artists.

In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

There was a point where people would mention that I was black everyday.

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.