Quotes About Injustice

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don't love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

Witch hunters is white women's worry.

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

It don't matter how many rallies or protests I go to. It don't matter how many songs I make spreading positivity or sending a message. It don't matter how much time I spend within the community. It don't matter that I have a black wife. Being a white person in America, you represent being a benefactor of slavery of what this country was built on.

Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.

Racism springs from ignorance.