Quotes About Injustice

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.