Quotes About Injustice

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.

One who understands is freer in the head but sadder in the heart. It is sad to know that there is so much wrong in our world, and for the most part we are helpless to do anything about it.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

Nothing saddens me more Than Nigger, one whose master has no Lord. No word leaves me more graced by shame.

Time is the only thief we can't get justice against.

Reverend Samuel Worcester was released from a Georgia prison, after serving four years of hard labor for speaking out against the mistreatment of Cherokee Indians.

The 'Declaration of Independence' begins: 'All men are created equal'. What they really meant was 'All men are created equal – unless they happen to be Indian, black or female'!)

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Imagine going to book a flight and the agent politely pauses, looks up at you, and says that you are blacklisted. Your "social credit" score shows that you have been doing some things that don't sit well with the government. You are being punished, and part of the punishment is that you can't travel out of the country to visit relatives in America. You're shocked. You haven't even gotten a traffic ticket before. "There must be some mistake,