Quotes About Injustice

It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

In the early sixties, the notion that racism was not acceptable even in certain regions or certain clubs or certain circumstances—the notion that it could not be treated with moderation—was a notion largely confined to black people.

It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the cries of the sick and hungry. The world wasn't like that— or it shouldn't be like that—even though I hadn't seen enough of the world to know what it was really like.

Ethiopia doesn't matter to the West," I say, stating the obvious. "We offer them nothing they can exploit.

It felt like betrayal, but in truth it was simply Muhammed Bruce's lament for the passing of an era. A time when Europeans had roamed the earth in pursuit of adventure, largely oblivious to the lives and laws of the people in the countries they picked through like cherries. Spitting out the pits. Just like my parents. They had stomped on the world like the Burtons of their era, only worse somehow because they did not think that their shoes left marks.

it is rare, though, that a great wrong is committed by one people against another without some among the perpetrators protesting the deed.

You stole it all! My youth, my work! Everything!

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

La historia tiene ya el número de páginas suficientes para enseñarnos dos cosas: que jamás los poderosos coincidieron con los mejores, y que jamás la política (contra todas las apariencias) fue tejida por los políticos (meros canalizadores de la inercia histórica).

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

multiple-murderer Jack Henry Abbott's book In The Belly of the Beast.

Teddy is never going to graduate from T-ball to baseball. He's never going to grow a mustache. Never going to get into a fistfight or shoot a deer or kiss a girl or have sex or fall in love or get married or father his own curly-haired child. I'm only ten years older than him, but it's like I've already had so much more life. It is unfair, If one of us should have been left behind, if one of us should have been given the opportunity for more life, it should be him.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

Often in life we will be evaluated and judged by people less qualified than ourselves. And that's frustrating. Authority doesn't always indicate ability or good judgment.

Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard

Americans have been slaughtering one another in record numbers, in what can only be called America's secret war against itself.

Wie lange sollen die Fußstapfen der Freiheit Gräber sein? - Ihr wollt Brot, und sie werfen euch Köpfe hin! Ihr durstet, und sie machen euch das Blut von den Stufen der Guillotine lecken!

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Property is organized robbery.

I hate all white men, but I hate you less than any white man I have ever known.

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?