Quotes About Injustice

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves.

They (the blacks) had no right which the white man was bound to respect.

I really don't deserve this, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.

Kad bi se sakupila i ujedno sabrala li?na ose?anja gneva, protesta, ga?enja i ogor?enja sa kojima su ljudi pojedinci umrli, uzalud dozivaju?i pravdu i zaštitu - kad bi tako nešto bilo mogu?no - bila bi to velika snaga, divan prizor, i uteha ljudskom duhu zauvek. Nažalost, to je nezamislivo i neizvodljivo. Svak umire u tami i teskobi svoga o?ajavanja, a ve?ina sa ose?anjem uzaludnosti svojih najboljih težnja i napora.

teški su zli gospodari, ali su još teže njihove nasilne i drske sluge i ?ankolizi.

for the supervisor's failure to promote us, for Boo-Boo's cheating, and for the fact that we just can't seem to get our lives

Baz? insanlar haks?z yere ac? çektiÄŸinde,' derdim kendi kendime, 'ac?lar?na tan?k olanlar?n kaderi bunun utanc?n? hissetmektir.' Ama bu düÅŸüncenin verdiÄŸi sahte avuntu beni rahatlatam?yordu. -Barbarlar? Beklerken

The thing about denying someone their voice in this life is that it tends to come out in death.

To have birthed and bred her, beaten and raped her all for selling her to other scum. What god made such creatures as that and set them to prey on innocents?

But it happened to us. At first you ask why—why did this happen to us? Then you realize, and try to accept, there is no why." Lori leaned her head to Ira's shoulder. "An evil person does evil things. There is no why.

as with any ugly time the innocents suffered and paid more than those who incited the ugliness.

That's unbelievably cruel." "Nothing cruel's unbelievable.

taught him never to look at skin—the color of skin is nothing. We're all God's children. He was a good boy. I told him, he had to work, that all of us must earn our way. So he took the work there, there where they killed him. Because I told him to.

from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?