Quotes About Injustice

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But not everyone looked away when injustices happened to others. When little Fienchen Blomberg was stoned in front of the Weilers' grocery store by six older boys, Frau Weiler let out a howl, grabbed her broom, and whipped from the store.

Me black and beautiful' was the first thing she taught me. Then she pointed to the policeman with the gun outside and taught me: 'He pig.

I thought: How dare you lecture me about history and loyalty, you slave? We have paid bitterly for people like you. Who have you ever been loyal to, apart from yourself and your family and your caste?

You couldn't listen to sweet songs about injustice unless you expected justice and received it much of the time. You couldn't sing songs about the end of the world unless-like the other people in that room, so beautiful with such simple things: African mats on the floor and African hangings on the wall and spears and masks-you felt that the world was going on and you were safe in it. How easy it was, in that room, to make those assumptions!

They both possessed a victimhood that had been conferred because they'd both been guilty of being female in a world where some men believed they deserved never to feel powerless.

Wherever you are, somebody's inflicting horror on another human being. It's just that there are some environments where it's easier to get away with it.

Treba podi?i mase protiv njih i sve ih uništiti kao klasu te prokletnike...Da bi ih ubili, trebalo je izjavitwi, Kulaci, to nisu ljudska bi?a, kao što su i Nijemci govorili, Jevreji, to nisu lj bi?a.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

Che potenza! Lo Stato contro l'uomo... Ora ti porta alle stelle, ora ti scaraventa in fondo a un burrone come se niente fosse».

Os campos de concentração tornaram-se cidades da Nova Europa. Cresciam e alargavam-se, com o seu traçado próprio, com as suas ruelas e praças, os seus hospitais, com as suas feiras da ladra, os seus crematórios e estádios.

Il peggio della burocrazia è quando in uno Stato operaio sono gli operai a soffrire».

Life was terrible. It was as though they could understand, as though they could read in one another's eyes, that the power which had ground them into the mud would continue – even after the war – to oppress both conquered and conquerors.

No tsar, nor even the Tatars or German Fascists, ever signed such a decree. The decree meant the death by famine of the peasants of the Ukraine, the Don, and the Kuban. It meant the death of them and their children. Even

Until the neglected and the rejected are accepted and respected, there's gonna be no damn peace . . . nowhere! Only a tree will stand still while it's being chopped down.

All the chief knew for sure was that in hard times The People should hold together, and last winter they had not done so. They had inflicted an injustice on themselves and the two old women, and he knew that The People had suffered silently since that day.

the most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.

there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Because things are not agreeable, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defencelessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: a human soul for a hunk of bread. Poverty offers and society accepts.

there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?

You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up.