Quotes About Injustice

Don't pat me on the back because I don't care that you're black, then get angry on other occasions, because I don't care that your're black!

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

The future belongs to the people, and gradually, or in one strike, they will take power, here and in every country.                   The terrible thing is the people need to be educated, and this they cannot do before taking power, only after. They can only learn at the cost of their own mistakes, which will be very serious and will cost many innocent lives.

To the powerful masters we repre­sent all that is absurd, negative, irreverent, and disruptive in this America that they so despise and scorn. But on the other hand, to the great mass of the American people (I'm referring to Our America, which is everything south of the Rio Bravo)-these peoples derisively called "mestizos"-we represent everything noble, sincere, and combative.

Not underdeveloped, as they call us, because we are not underdeveloped. We are simply badly developed, badly developed because imperialism long ago took over our raw materials and set out to exploit them according to its own imperial needs.

Democracy represents the dictatorship of the exploiting classes.

Do not think one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

No more sexism. No more racism. Female heroes are just as celebrated as their male counterparts are. We won the war, ladies! Ha! Just kidding. It still sucks.

I'm tired and I have ocean hair. So listen up, all of you. You've been hauling me in here for months. Using my blood for experiments without my consent, and violating every word of the Patient's Rights Act. Now, let's cut the crap. I need answers.

it is not really the difference the oppressor fears so much as the similarity. He fears he will discover in himself the same aches, the same longings as those of the people he has shit on... . He fears he will have to change his life once he has seen himself in the bodies of the people he has called different.

It's wrong that this is required of you. It's wrong that your son died. It will always be wrong.

Privilege has a way of fucking with our heads the same way as lack of it does.

I had not lived a sheltered life. I'd had my share of hardships and sorrows. I thought I knew how the world worked, but this I could not believe. I thought that if it was known that bad things were happening to children, those bad things would be stopped. But that is not the sort of society we live in, I realized. There is no such society.

The second trait is our numbness to injustice. It comes from our environment. We are exposed to corruption from our childhood. Almost

Corruption is worse than terrorism. Terrorists blow up existing infrastructure such as roads, airports and power plants. Corruption prevents such infrastructure from being created in the first place. Terrorists take innocent lives. Corrupt politicians prevent hospitals from being built, which means that innocent lives

A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished, no matter how brave its warriors or how strong their weapons.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

How do you approach the wheel of time — do you ride her stick your foot in her gears ignore her slow grinding write poems of her elusive movement sync yourself with her dance or cry out in the cold night of her injustice & indifference?

Time is the only thief we can't get justice against.

The big bee flies high, the little bee makes the honey; the black folks makes the cotton, and the white folks get the money.

Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it.