Quotes About Injustice

What's up, Roy?" "Well . . ." He looked up at the sun, not bothering to shield his eyes. "I got locked up for a crime I didn't commit, and when I get home, my wife has hooked up with my boy.

She also wondered why she wasn't able to care more about the important things happening in the world. There was the Vietnam War. She knew boys who had died, and there was always Dr. King, cold in the ground. Even though Willie Mae hadn't been bitten by a dog, she had been in Birmingham when the German shepherds were let loose. And where had Mother been when all of this was going on? She was busy learning to be a wife.

Nobody around here thought you did it. It was just the wrong race and the wrong time.

I'm bringing this up because I knew that things like this happen to people, but by people , I didn't mean us.

Son," my father said, gripping the dessert spoon like a pitchfork. "I have one thing to say to you, as a black man: Roy is a hostage of the state. He is a victim of America. The least you could do is unhand his wife when he gets back.

Kodak commercials say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the one they showed of Rodney ain't worth more than three or four. Boy. Black.

My lords, let us consider just law. Does it bring tranquillity, good order, piety, justice and liberty and prosperity to a people? Does it nourish patriotism and the way of a manly and upright life? Then it is a good law, and deserves our utter obedience. "But if it brings pain, intolerable burdens, injustice, sleepless anxiety and fear and slavery to a people, then it is an evil law passed and upheld by evil men, who hate humanity and wish to subjugate and control it.

Aumentando los impuestos es como un gobierno cruel y monstruoso puede monopolizar todo el poder; porque entonces puede establecer un sistema de premios y castigos: premios para los que permiten la tiranía y castigos para lo que se le opongan.

Contra el poder del dinero y la corrupción no podrá hacerse nada.

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries, nor will his red children acknowledge any.

It's an outrageous injustice that he was the one to die. He'd nothing to do with this affair." "It's always that way, sir. Come on, let's tend to that hand of yours.

I have lived with a lot of racism in Spain. Unfortunately, I have had to learn to deal with it.

A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

I'm here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn't working for them, because I know it isn't. I'm here to say it's not your fault: the ruling class... has failed you.

I speak the truth on what happened to me because it's happening to a lot of people that grow up in displaced and disadvantaged communities.

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.