Quotes About Injustice

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.