Quotes About Injustice

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

The world kept telling her to look away, to pay no attention to an age-old system, in which men thrived and inconvenient women disappeared.

How many times is a woman allowed to defend herself? In Polly's experience, not even once.

It's exhausting, meaning well in a world that assumes you're a pig because of the body you're born into, but then—it's so much

People today are always talking about prejudice and stuff, like the rest of us never knew it.

Este crimen se impone como un espejo, y el monstruo que allí se refleja tiene la cara del país entero.

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

Girls were punished so hard for their love, so hard, hard enough to break them.

I wish I knew why some people suffer so much more than others

It's terrible to be born to do something you will never be permitted to do. Especially while you watch yourself go through life doing something else.

What animal would do this?"he said harshly. "No, little one, animals might scratch you, or bite you, or even rip you apart in hunger or fear, but only a man can crush you inside, in your heart, for no other reason than the colour of tour skin.

What had Dr. Latham done to deserve a beating?

Manuel's harshest policies concerned the Jews of Portugal

King Manuel ordered the harassment of Magellan's relatives who remained in their homeland.

If jurors were looking for a way to come back finding for the UKA, Mays had given it to them. Senator Michael Figures made the plaintiff's final arguments. He had been there on Herndon Street the morning of the lynching, and he had seen Donald's body hanging from a tree. He had been

As the two young men prowled through the black neighborhood, they were not looking for any black man in particular. Their victim could be young, old, fat, skinny, weak, strong. They didn't care. They weren't afraid. They had a gun. All that mattered was that he was the right color.

The Klansmen and their frenzied followers ran through the silent, deserted streets, carrying clubs and chains. Favorite weapons were "head-knockers," hollowed-out baseball bats that had been filled with molten lead and then sealed back up so they looked like normal athletic equipment.

They were a motley, dispirited underclass that wanted black people held down in part because they needed someone to look down upon, as most of the white world looked down on them.

While Dees was growing up, he had seen that black lives didn't matter, and until they did, there could be no true justice.

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social and political movements in American history.

In London in the 1980s some migrants from former British colonies in the Caribbean responded to racist attacks with a powerful slogan: "We are here because you were there.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

The average American, one judge ruled, cannot reasonably be expected to visually distinguish between various varieties of persons of Asian origin. As if they were types of apples, or breeds of dogs; as if those persons of Asian origin did not count as average Americans themselves.