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Quotes About Injustice

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
~ Bob Dylan
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
~ Heraclitus
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
~ Roger Brooke Taney
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
~ William Blake
The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
~ Edmund Barton
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
~ Edmund Burke
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
~ Frantz Fanon
All women are inferior to men.
~ Garry Kasparov
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.
~ Dick Gregory
Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
~ Homer
The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
~ John Henninger Reagan
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
~ Joseph Addison
Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.
~ Lillian Smith
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.
~ Malcolm X
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
~ Sigmund Freud
We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.
~ Sterling K. Brown
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
~ Sun Ra
Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.
~ Wael Ghonim
To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.
~ Amy Schumer