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Quotes About Injustice

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.
~ Daniel O'Connell
We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
~ Malcolm X
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
~ Democritus
Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
~ Albert Einstein
The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman
~ Hattie McDaniel
Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.
~ Matilda Joslyn Gage
This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values
~ Steven Biko
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
~ Amiri Baraka
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
~ Frederick Douglass
Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.
~ Kanye West
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
~ George Orwell
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
~ Sitting Bull
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
~ Aldous Huxley
We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
~ Wesley Snipes
The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.
~ James A. Baldwin
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
~ Rebecca West
A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
~ Norm MacDonald
It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man will use in America to keep us separated from our own people.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.
~ Gerrit Smith
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
~ Aristophanes
For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.
~ Athol Fugard
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
~ Emma Goldman