Quotes About Injustice

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.

Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.

The racial dynamics over here are fraught. White supremacy is overt. It's the reason I don't want to raise my kids here.

Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by racism, by white supremacy, by the patriarchy - how can you not feel empathy?

White supremacy is deeply entrenched in our nation's DNA.

If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.

White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.

White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.

I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.

I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic, but it's true.

Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.

In our country, racism is never far below the surface.

History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.

I have experienced ageism and sexism. In my 20s, I was told by a camera lighting man I needed plastic surgery. In my 30s I was constantly told I needed to lose weight.

I hope people listen to black people more. You'd be surprised how little people listen to black people when it comes to racial issues. It's weird.

This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.