Quotes About Injustice

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier's uniform.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

A slave is but half a man.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.