Quotes About Injustice

It would be best if this obscure chapter in the history of the world were terminated at once, if these ugly people were obliterated from the face of the earth and we swore to make a new start, to run an empire in which there would be no more injustice, no more pain.

No one beats me, no one starves me, no one spits on me. How can I regard myself as a victim of prosecution when my sufferings are so petty? Yet they are all the more degrading for their pettiness.

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

por qué precisamente su hijo, mientras los otros noventa y nueve siguen incólumes, jugando y disfrutando? Le parece monstruoso que la oscuridad haya engullido a David, que no haya indignación, ni clamor, que nadie se arranque los cabellos ni rechine los dientes, que el mundo siga girando sobre su eje como si nada hubiera ocurrido.

Mi madre se pasó la vida trabajando. Fregaba los suelos de otros, cocinaba para ellos, lavaba sus platos. Lavaba su ropa sucia. Fregaba sus baños después de que los usaran. Se arrodillaba y limpiaba el retrete. Pero cuando estaba vieja y enferma, la olvidaron. La apartaron de su vista. Cuando murió, la arrojaron al fuego.

Qué le da a un desconocido, a un hombre que no la vio en su vida, el derecho a ponerse una toga escarlata y decir: «Una vida entera de encierro, ese es el valor de su vida»? O bien: «Veinticinco años en las minas de sal». ¡No tiene ningún sentido! ¡Hay crímenes que no se pueden medir!

He absolutely was a coward. A weak coward whose dead had not been avenged, who had no voice, and whose body was nothing even a ten-year-old would envy.

Cause that was the criminal justice system for you. Money talked, and creeps walked.

The young male had been toyed with cruelly, his body a pincushion of shallow stabs. Going by the raw patches on his knees and the gravel in his palms, he'd tried to drag himself away a number of times.

I can't breathe.

How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land but the newspapers preen in virtue - Throughout the world the left & right the east & west, are both vicious

Her unimpeachable dignity was the thing that made her poor in a wild old whorehouse.

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found / Among the most ruthlessly exploited classes:

After all a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

He who steals my purse steals my right to live, was the reply, old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.

Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

I look at Liv Tyler and think 'It's not fair', because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.

In the beginning, all of us got 'women type' stories. Like covering the first lady instead of the president.