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Quotes About Injustice

Israel, from its inception in 1948, has been given the most wonderful opportunity to behave itself, and it clearly has not done so. It's flouted every single law, it's behaved outrageously, it's made a travesty of international and humanitarian law. On what basis should this state continue to be a member of the United Nations?
~ Ghada Karmi
If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.
~ Ghassan Kanafani
They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it… Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity… O their audacity!
~ Ghassan Kanafani
People are ashamed, not of the injustices they do, but of those they receive. And so, in order that the unjust person should be ashamed, there is no other way than to give as good as one gets.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Dico che il mondo è una lega di birbanti contro gli uomini dabbene, di vili contro i generosi.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
vincitori non ebbero pietà neppure dei militari fascisti ricoverati negli ospedali dopo essere rimasti feriti in azioni precedenti il 25 aprile. All'Ospedale militare vennero strappati dai letti e subito uccisi sette paracadutisti, uno dei quali aveva un braccio amputato.
~ Giampaolo Pansa
We know a lot of ugly things happen in the world and we can't allow ourselves to get indignant about all of them. We have limited reserves of indignation. But when the events are so close, when they touch you personally, what must you do? It's one thing not being able to do anything – you know something isn't right, but you can't do anything about it – it's quite another when you have in your own hands the possibility of reacting in some way.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
You will not be able to stay home, brother.You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out.You will not be able to lose yourself on scagand skip out for beer during commercial breaks.The revolution will not be televised.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
You never cared enough to be Black
~ Gil Scott-Heron
The revolution will not be televised
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Whitey's on the moon
~ Gil Scott-Heron
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, Will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be not re-run, brothers. The revolution will be live.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
~ Gilbert Murray
there is a tendency in Africa that it does not matter if an African kills other Africans. Had Amin been white, free Africa would have passed many resolutions condemning him. Being black is now becoming a certificate to kill fellow Africans.
~ Giles Foden
there is a tendency in Africa that it does not matter if an African kills other Africans. Had Amin been white, free Africa would have passed many resolutions condemning him. Being black is now
~ Giles Foden
There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
~ Gilles Deleuze
This time she did not feel a thing when the Headmaster stuck the pin into her arm.
~ Gillian Cross
I felt unsteady as I lead Xerxes to his seat. Women in his kingdom were but dressing for a man's bed and a satisfactory way to provide heirs. The king had once banished a queen on the advice of his counsel. Now would he accept the word of his queen and banish the adviser? Dear God, I pleaded silently, how can it be that I should change history? I am a prisoner myself – how can I asked for the freedom of a nation?
~ Ginger Garrett
In any case, if they don't do it to you, they do it to someone else...if you let them do it to others, you become an accomplice, intentionally or not
~ Gioconda Belli
Malhadada suerte la nuestra de mujeres fuertes y temidas de los hombres! ¡Tenían que encerrarnos, humillarnos, pegarnos, para olvidar el temor que les inspirábamos y sentirse reyes!
~ Gioconda Belli
R?spunsul meu - singurul posibil la vremea aceea - la r?ut?cioasa nedreptate a sorÈ›ii È™i la t?cuta duÈ™m?nie a oamenilor, a fost convingerea în nesfârÈ™ita deÈ™ert?ciune a tuturor lucrurilor, în tic?loÈ™ia înn?scut? È™i în nefericirea de neînl?turat a speÈ›ei umane.
~ Giovanni Papini