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Quotes About Injustice

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.
~ Henry Giroux
Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.
~ Henry Giroux
If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
~ Henry Rollins
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
~ Herman Melville
Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
~ Hillary Clinton
Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
~ James Russell Lowell
There's no joy to be had seeing any black man, any black man taking a perp walk, let alone some of whom meant so much to us for so long.
~ Jamilah Lemieux
As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Stupid f***ing white man.
~ Jim Jarmusch
My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.
~ John Fogerty
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.
~ John Foster Dulles
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frederic Bastiat
We have the best government that money can buy.
~ Mark Twain
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
~ George Washington
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.
~ Louise Mushikiwabo
Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.
~ Don Henley
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
~ Aristotle, Politics
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.
~ Edward Gibbon
Washington is dominated by big money.
~ Bernie Sanders
My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.
~ Ida Tarbell