Quotes About Injustice

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

The love I see in this world is hate and prejudices.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.