Quotes About Injustice

There aren't any messages in my social protestations.

I became the messenger who had to be killed.

If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.

I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.

I've had a Japanese judge, a Mexican judge in the past, and they have done some ridiculous scoring.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

Activists are killed in Mexico.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

Michael Brown - when he lost his life, there was more focus on what he had done sometimes than what was done to him.

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think you are high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody, but I've got news for you.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Only one and half million Jews died in the Holocaust.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Before I came to Milwaukee, I'd heard the city was the most segregated in the country. I'd heard it was racist. When I got here, it was extremely segregated. I've never lived in a city this segregated.

To think that some people don't have clean water was mind-boggling to me.

On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.

Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's the racism, and those are the hard facts of the story.

Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.