Quotes About Injustice

Why are the ones who need the most shelter always the ones left out in the rain?

British Empire had demonstrated that there was no greater blind spot on its map of benevolence than the conquered land closest to home.

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

There's no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don't exist.

There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all.

Here's a fact: I absolutely understand the humiliation of being stopped for no reason other than driving while black.

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

My mom had an encounter with the KKK when she was, I think, 7 years old in North Carolina. She snuck into a cross burning. I'm so lucky she didn't get caught, because I wouldn't be here.

I'm a multi-racial person - I'm black and white - and growing up in North Carolina, I've dealt with a lot of racism. Growing up as a kid, I've seen it. I've been through it in many forms and fashions.

When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever existed. You wonder how we allow that to happen as human beings; how we allow the human condition to get so depraved and desperate.

There's nothing I did wrong. I was just born in North Korea, and that was my crime.

I do think sometimes, I wonder is it true that every life is equal in this world? Do we care about North Korean lives?

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

Life - life is not fair. But it can be extraordinary.

Life's not fair, I guess.

I don't get to keep the dresses I wear. It is not fair.

I think, when you survive any intense experience, people try to moralize you; a lot of people just try to raise you high, and it's so not fair to you and to everybody else.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.