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Quotes About Injustice

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
~ Sargent Shriver
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.
~ Thomas Merton
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
~ Clarence Darrow
Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
~ Frederick Douglass
What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
~ Grace Paley
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.
~ Cathie Linz, Good Girls Do
But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
~ Abraham Lincoln
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
~ Abraham Lincoln
If (Mike) Hargrove was his own man, I would have been picked (for the 1998 All-Star team). He is another person who doesn't appreciate what I did for him.
~ Albert Belle
All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.
~ Andrew Davidson
I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.
~ Barack Obama
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in.
~ Bill Cosby
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
~ Carolyn Maloney
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
~ Charles Dickens
See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.
~ Chris Rock
I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."
~ Chuck D
The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
~ Clarence H. Burns
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.
~ Daniel Handler
People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.
~ David Ortiz
Man's inhumanity toward man is astounding, and I'm just talking about the lineup at certain comedy clubs.
~ Dov Davidoff
Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.
~ Dov Davidoff