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Quotes About Injustice

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
~ Rudy Rucker
I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around it. The thing is you can never predict what the next injustice is going to be. Unfortunately, it's part of being black and conscious in America.
~ Cheo Hodari Coker
Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
~ Frances McDormand
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.
~ Plutarch
If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.
~ Syed Arshad, If It's Not Love
Death is not considerate, or fair.
~ Compton Gage
When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness.It feels no need to produce a big speech to overcome its enemies.In silence it finds its peace.
~ Raphael Zernoff
Silence is golden...but in times of tyranny it is blood red
~ Parag Tipnis
Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.
~ Immortal Technique
The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.
~ David Duke
When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.
~ Dorothy Height
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
~ Alice Paul
A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
~ Dolores Huerta
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
~ Mary Church Terrell
No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.
~ Emily Murphy
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
~ Mary Robinson
It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.
~ Amelia Bloomer
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
~ Lillian Hellman
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
~ Dorothy Height
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
~ Malala Yousafzai
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
~ Mary Astell