Quotes About Injustice

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes. The commerce of the living is not to be transferred unto the dead; it is not injustice to take that which none complains to lose, and no man is wronged where no man is possessor.

The ghostly consciousness of wrong.

Aristocracy of the Moneybag.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

My mom had a sense that... there are always these barriers up for certain groups of people. That's always been core to how I understand the world and navigate it.

There's a lot of racism when I was in the Navy, and I had to deal with that.

The war against the Black Liberation movement by the FBI/U.S. government was most influential for me in seeing the necessity for armed self-defense.

Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.

To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.

I grew up in the neighborhood where Eric Garner died. No one knows that about me.

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

There's blackballing involved with Machine Gun Kelly, a lot of confusion about who I am as an artist. But that's so small in the wake of someone like Nelson Mandela.

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, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.

Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding this narrative of racial difference that was created during the slave years.

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

I was shocked when I would read a newspaper from that time, and the Freedom March wasn't even mentioned.