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Quotes About Injustice

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
~ Mark Twain
Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.
~ Monte Irvin
The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.
~ Garry Trudeau
Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.
~ Taylor Mead
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
~ Jennifer Weiner
When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.
~ Josh Brolin
The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
~ Ricky Gervais
It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.
~ Steven Soderbergh
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
~ Todd Garlington
In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people.
~ David Alejandro Fearnhead
Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest
~ Pradeepa Pandiyan
It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers.
~ Kristin Cashore, Fire
Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.
~ Matthew Desmond
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
~ Angela Davis
When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.
~ Kristin Hunter
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
~ Ella Baker
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
~ Robert Matsui
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
~ Don King
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
~ Sojourner Truth
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head
~ Edvard Munch
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
~ Ameen Rihani
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
~ Frantz Fanon