Quotes About Injustice

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

Because white men can't police their imaginations, black men are dying.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.