Quotes About Injustice

Our lives are a meaningful stand against injustice, and we can make meaningful choices every day. Your food choices are far more powerful than you imagine. Veganism offers a daily way to enact your values while helping to protect the environment and enhance your health. It becomes a daily reminder that change is possible. Social change is not just something we must work for; it's something that constantly asks us to change.

Low prices are what consumers consider fair, even if their affordable goods create injustice elsewhere.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

but it didn't make up for the indignity inflicted by the careless arrogance of the young.

Quando havia um conflito, quem ia preso era o negro. E muitas vezes o negro estava apenas olhando. Os soldados não podiam prender os brancos, então prendiam os pretos. Ter uma pele branca era um escudo, um salvo-conduto.

A pior coisa é suportar um rico prepotente.

Houve até um projeto dizendo que se o mulato tivesse o cabelo liso era considerado branco, se o cabelo fosse crespo então o mulato era considerado negro.

Os politicos sabem que eu sou poetisa. E que o poeta enfrenta a morte quando vê o seu povo oprimido.

Sexism is judging people by their sex where sex doesn't matter.

I bet he got picked on but what they don't tell you about bullying is that sometimes, the kid deserves it.

I will look beyond the injustice of her getting a bed in a hospital. She only gets to stay because her dad is on the board of the hospital. And it's not fair to think of all the genuinely sick people turned away. But nothing is fair.

Skeçler yaz?p sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, "Ne yaz?k ki zencisiniz." diye cevap verdiler. K?v?rc?k saçlar?mla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiÄŸimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlar?n? beyazlar?nkinden daha muntazam buluyorum. Bizim saçlar?m?z daha uysald?r, istediÄŸimiz yerde kal?r. Beyazlar?nki ise en küçük bir baÅŸ hareketinde yer deÄŸiÅŸir.

Looking at me, one would think that I'm alive…I'm not alive. I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it'. (Moorehead, 2011, 317)

The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.

The Bible's message for women doesn't depend on ideal circumstances, but applies fully to those who live in the brutal outskirts of society where poverty engulfs, education is nonexistent, women's bodies are ravaged, and lives are in constant peril simply because they are female.

After beating Lorca with their rifle butts and calling him a faggot, they filled him with bullets. The grave, sought by many, has never been found.

She began reciting something that sounded almost like litany: Aguilares, Padre Grande, Padre Navarro, aquí en San Salvador y en Aguilares y campesinos, "hundreds, three hundreds, all dead, even niños dead.

You are always asking me why the people don't do something, why they put up with this brutality, why they don't rise up against it, this and that. Okay. You're exhausted, you're shocked, you're sick to your stomach, and you feel dirty. These things are what people feel every day here—and you expect them to get themselves organized? You expect them to fight back? Could you fight back at this moment?

Carolyn Forché

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

The male students stole my equipment and tried unsuccessfully to sabotage my lab work. They told endless filthy jokes and cussed extensively whenever I was within earshot. I learned not to react. They made passes that stopped just short of actual assault. One charmer pinched my rear end so hard I had a bruise on my rump for a week. After I stomped his instep he never did it again.

Let's face it, the world has issues. Big issues like sex slaves and genocide, racism, poverty, homophobia and wars, religious conflicts and environmental disasters—but the world is also worth saving because it has writers like Foucault and people like Issie and Grandma Betty. I know it's not all cuddly puppies and rainbows and ice-cream sundaes, but it needs a chance, as many chances as it can get to survive.

Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

The niggers, who else?" He sounded disappointed. "We had to show them who was boss, you see. There was this Belgian captain. He used Negro heads as decorations around his flower bed. To each his own.