Quotes About Injustice

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn't.

There's a lot written about killers from the mortal age –monsters like Jack the Ripper, or Charlie Manson, or Cyber Sally –and the only difference between them and Goddard is that people let Goddard get away with it. The mortals knew how wrong it was, but somehow we've forgotten.

We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

My friend, life can often be most brutal and unfair. Death is the same.

This place isn't a refuge, it's a slave market. Why doesn't anyone see that?' 'Who says they don't see it? It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

We are not just AWOLS! We are not just parts! We are whole human beings-and history will look back on these times in shame!

That's right, pick on Emby, says Connor. Show everyone just how low you are.

All he ever wanted was a comfortable chair and a place in history. Well, he was robbed of one and died in the other.

That's what you are now. TROUBLE in caps-lock. Then she puts her cane down, and softens a bit. "That's not your fault, though. You didn't ask to be born, and you didn't ask to be unwound, either.

They were to be the start of a slave army—for when you're a collection of parts, you're not a person. You're property.

Man—all mankind, that is to say—is so naturally depraved that he suffers less from universal degradation than from the establishment of a reasonable hierarchy.

We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.

we are all voluntary members of a concentration camp.

I avoided any direct reference to Jews and Blacks, who had never given me any trouble. All my trouble had come from white gentiles.

the worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.

the worst sin in the world is when the poor try to rob the poor. the enemy is fairly obvious, why weaken our ranks?

The trouble is that there are too many Chinks. When you kill a Chink he splits in half and becomes two Chinks.