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Quotes About Injustice

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
~ Karl Marx
The Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
~ Karl Marx
oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
~ Karl Marx
The real pressure must be made more oppressive by making men conscious of the pressure, and the disgrace more disgraceful by publishing it.
~ Karl Marx
Mean king Ahab kept on being mean.
~ Karyn Henley
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing.
~ Kate Atkinson
Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up, she wondered? I expect Jesus came out of the tomb...and said to his mother, Can you tidy it up a bit back there?
~ Kate Atkinson
The blame generally has to fall somewhere, Miss Armstrong. Women and the Jews tend to be first in line, unfortunately.
~ Kate Atkinson
It was funny how so many men were defined by their downfall. Caesar, Fred Goodwin, Trotsky, Harvey Weinstein, Hitler, Jimmy Savile. Women hardly ever. They didn't fall down. They stood up.
~ Kate Atkinson
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
~ Holly Near
It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.
~ Jackson Katz
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
~ James A. Baldwin
Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
~ Joan of Arc
Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
~ John Stuart Mill
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
~ Jules Michelet
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
~ Juvenal
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
~ Juvenal
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
~ Lilly Ledbetter
The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.
~ Malcolm X
The common enemy is the white man.
~ Malcolm X
I'm a man more dined against than dining.
~ Maurice Bowra
Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan