Quotes About Injustice

nacimos cuando ya era tarde en la historia, tampoco tenemos un pasado o, si lo tenemos, hemos escupido sobre sus restos, nuestros pueblos se echaron a dormir durante un siglo y mientras dormían los robaron y ahora andan en andrajos, no logramos conservar ni siquiera lo que los españoles dejaron al irse, nos hemos apuñalado entre nosotros...-.

I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interaction, rather than huge injustices.

It's not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?

Köpekler bizden olmayan? sezer, anlar. Onlarda bu haslet Allah vergisidir. Bu yüzden Avrupal?lar? taklit etmek isteyenler köpeklerden korkar. Osmanl?'n?n belkemiÄŸi Yeniçerileri katlederek Bat?l?lar'a bizi ezdiren II. Mahmut Ä°stanbul'un köpeklerini de katletmiÅŸ, öldüremediklerini Hay?rs?zada'ya sürgün etmiÅŸti.

Tidak cukup hanya menjadi pihak yang tertindas, kau juga harus menjadi pihak yang benar, karena sebagian besar orang yang tertindas dapat dipandang salah dari nyaris semua sudut pandang.

They were able to deduce from his reports that the sharbat was poisonous to Turks but not to Kurds; however, because of the official state position that Kurds and Turks are indistinguishable, they kept this conclusion to themselves.

I was reminded of a horrifying aphorism my father had taught me, expressing the ambivalence of officials toward gifted artists and writers who criticize their regimes: "Poets must first be hanged, then mourned at the gallows.

Mevlut beÅŸ dakika ayn? köÅŸede durursa kald?r?m? iÅŸgal etti diye arabas?n? al?p parçalayan belediye memurlar?, büyük ÅŸirketlerin kald?r?mlarda yürümeyi zorlaÅŸt?ran buzdolaplar?na hiç ses etmiyordu.

Columbus was carried back to Spain in chains, and a pickle dealer of Seville, who never rose above the position of mate of a schooner, gave his name to the world Columbus had discovered.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.

T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery.

when a government pretends that it is the highest judge of its own actions, the result is not freedom as Jefferson says, but chaos and oppression.

Sometimes David kills Goliath, and people never forget. But there were a lot of little guys Goliath had already mashed into the ground. Nobody sang songs about those fights…

Verily joined in. "My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

The law didn't make witch trials happen. It was the hunger for witch trials that got them to make up the law.

that's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

If you can own property, how are you a slave?" asked Rigg. "Because your owner can move you to one place or another, can break up your marriage, can sell your children to some other owner, can decide how much education you'll receive, and what work you'll do, and what hours you'll keep.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!

Satyagraha: the revelation of truth and the confrontation of injustice through nonviolent means.

The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.