Quotes About Injustice

I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.

When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.

I've never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.

Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

This is what the Republican party stands for, though: racism.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.